Sentences with phrase «therapeutic cloning»

The OAR proposal uses a variation of therapeutic cloning called altered nuclear transfer (ANT) in which the nucleus of a donor cell (a skin cell, for example), containing the 30,000 genes of the genetic code, is altered in such a way that it produces an epigenetic factor, a protein called nanog.

But it would allow so - called therapeutic cloning in which a patient's cells are coaxed to an embryonic state where they regain the potential to create all of the body's different tissue types.

In Germany, where it is as though we are experiencing a crusade against therapeutic cloning, we could well take a leaf out of this book.

Plus, hopes for therapeutic cloning rest on the ability to produce embryonic stem cells from cells harvested from diseased patients.

«It's proof of principle for human therapeutic cloning,» says team member Don Wolf of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Beaverton.

Cabrera Times «A first step has been taken to lift the ban on therapeutic cloning in Canberra research laboratories after the ACT Government tabled legislation this week.»

The United Kingdom is the only country that allowed therapeutic cloning of human embryos solely in research purposes.

Embryonic cell lines and autologous embryonic stem cells generated through therapeutic cloning have also been proposed as promising candidates for future therapies.

With so much work needed in studying the nature of stem cells and using them to study disease processes, therapies based on ES cells seem very far down the line, noted Lorenz Studer of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who pointed out that so far there have only been two published papers on therapeutic cloning, both of them in mice.

The possibilities arising from therapeutic cloning are creating hope for millions of people who are seriously ill — for example, Alzheimer's patients, just to mention one group.

The move towards therapeutic cloning as a research vehicle to find a cure for genetic diseases is extremely important.

A few years ago, therapeutic cloning looked like the future of medicine.

The early debates about therapeutic cloning, the value of national regulations in the global information era, or how to define best practices in decision making regarding new and emerging health - related technologies are just a few examples.

Even if therapeutic cloning saves a considerable amount of money for the health care system?

The team moved quickly to try to make therapeutic cloning a reality.

But if a time does come when therapeutic cloning becomes the gold standard of care for a variety of diseases, Hwang's innovative and groundbreaking explorations will have paved the way.

Cloned early - stage human embryos — and human embryos generated only from eggs, in a process called parthenogenesis — now put therapeutic cloning within reach

If the cells can be fertilized and develop into viable embryos, and if human ES cells turn out to have similar powers, such cells could allow researchers to get around some of the expense and ethical questions that arise from using donated eggs for therapeutic cloning experiments.

ACT announced last November that they had cloned early - stage human embryos in a step toward therapeutic cloning (which seeks to treat diseases by using genetic material from a patient's own cells) but the company believes that reproductive cloning is too risky and unwarranted at this time.

This is what makes the return of therapeutic cloning such a gripping plot twist (see «Human stem cells made using Dolly cloning technique «-RRB-.

Ethical concerns led the US to severely restrict funding for therapeutic cloning research.

On Thursday, Rep. Tom Emmer, R - Delano, proposed a substitute to Kahn's bill which would have banned the use of any stem cell obtained through the destruction of an embryo and also banned human cloning in any form, including therapeutic cloning.

«We hope that unsubstantiated work by mavericks will not tarnish the valuable work of research groups looking into therapeutic cloning technologies for responsible and ethical purposes.»

As Ian Wilmut submits his application for a license to perform therapeutic cloning to the HFEA, scientists respond.

Professor Alison Murdoch, Chair of British Fertility Society and Head of Newcastle Centre for Life, who had a successful therapeutic cloning license application earlier this year, said:

I think that the constitutional argument against therapeutic cloning is simply abstruse.

For a number of years it has been suggested that this use may be one of the fruitful applications of therapeutic cloning.

The only alternative for generating patient - specific cell lines is a process called therapeutic cloning, a technique that involves transplanting the nucleus from an adult cell into an enucleated egg.

He was the SPD's first higher official in Germany to take the stand for allowing therapeutic cloning and changing current law in favour of genetic research.

Until recently, scientists believed the way to do this would be through therapeutic cloning, a controversial technique — still unproven for humans — that involves putting the nucleus from a body cell into an enucleated egg.

Biologists are optimistic that the problem can be solved — but ethical objections to human therapeutic cloning will remain.

There are many medical and scientific benefits to be had from therapeutic cloning.

We know for example that from one day to the next we move from «therapeutic cloning» to «reproductive cloning».

There are hopes in the medical community that stem cell research and therapeutic cloning will facilitate organ cloning and enable the replacement of damaged cells with healthy ones for sufferers of degenerative diseases.

Reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning both rely on the process of «somatic cell nuclear transfer».

The others are recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning, and therapeutic cloning.

It can be used in embryonic stem cell research, or in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as «therapeutic cloning.»

AAAS supports stem cell research, including the use of nuclear transplantation techniques (also known as research or therapeutic cloning), in order to realize the enormous potential health benefits this technology offers.

To solve this, West proposed «therapeutic cloning» — taking the nucleus out of a patient's cell, transferring it into an egg cell to create a cloned embryo, then using that embryo to derive patient - matched stem - cell lines.

He also voiced staunch opposition to human cloning of any kind, and a bill to ban it had been advancing through the US Congress, much to the chagrin of researchers who saw promise in therapeutic cloning.

Consequently, a fundamental argument against using embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning can not be derived from existing constitutional law and additional court decisions.

In my view, this has not been achieved on any occasion in the case of therapeutic cloning.

In February 2001, BAC formed its Human Stem Cell Research (HSR) subcommittee to deal specifically with issues arising from human stem cell research and to consider related issues of reproductive and therapeutic cloning.

A prohibition of pre-implantation diagnostics or therapeutic cloning can neither be derived from German Basic Law, nor from other existing law (such as the Embryo Protection Law — Embryonenschutzgesetz).

Citing constitutional law therefore is a blunt sword in the crusade against therapeutic cloning.

But everyone who accepts these instruments becomes implausible when asking for a ban of therapeutic cloning and projects the near end of the Western world.

Besides the discussion about pre-implantation diagnostics, which I believe should be allowed, therapeutic cloning is also a hot issue.

This was a proof - of - principle experiment for so - called therapeutic cloning, the therapeutic use of nuclear - transfer technology,» Hochedlinger says.

The senate still strongly opposes reproductive and therapeutic cloning.