Sentences with phrase «use of embryonic stem cell research»

On the use of embryonic stem cell research to cure diseases: it should be shut down because it involves «the wholesale destruction of human life».

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If we are against the use of stem cell research on the basis of embryonic destruction, shouldn't we also be against in - vitro fertilization clinics because there are always excess embryos that get discarded?

In addition, scientific journals continue to push the issue of embryonic stem - cell research in their editorial and commentary sections, using it as a prime criterion to grade political candidates.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

In August of last year, President Bush approved the use of federal funds to support research on a limited number of existing human embryonic stem cell lines.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

The ability of SIF - seq to use reporter assays in mouse embryonic stem cells to identify human embryonic stem cell enhancers that are not present in the mouse genome opens the door to intriguing research possibilities as Dickel explains.

Research involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such rResearch involving the derivation and use of embryonic stem (ES) cells is permissible only where there is strong scientific merit in, and potential medical benefit from, such researchresearch.

Thus, they consider the use of embryonic stem cells for research purposes as unconstitutional.

It has been recognized in the scientific community that the use of embryonic stem cells in research will become more and more important.

But a number of the invited speakers, including Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, and keynote speaker George Daley, a stem - cell scientist at Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, are involved in research using human embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church considers unethical.

Scientists anticipate that they'll be able to use iPS cells for much of the research they have been planning with human embryonic stem (ES) cells.

The research team used mass spectrometry to compare phosphorylation of proteins from mouse embryonic stem cells with fully functioning GSK - 3 to cells in which the gene encoding GSK - 3 had been deleted.

The final guidelines on research with human embryonic stem cells issued on Monday by the National Institutes of Health set out criteria for determining which ES cell lines can be used in federally funded experiments and give NIH discretion to approve old lines that don't meet stringent modern ethical requirements.

In the past few weeks, the debate about genetic research in Germany has focused on the issue of the use of embryonic stem cells for research.

In its white paper on stem cell research published last Thursday, the DFG's senate confirmed its position that the use of adult stem cells has to have priority over embryonic stem cells.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) pleased stem cell watchers today by announcing the names of 10 companies and research groups that have human embryonic stem cells federally funded researchers can use.

In August of last year, President George W. Bush announced that scientists who received public research money could use only the human embryonic stem - cell lines that already exist — a decision that dismayed many researchers.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, the use of adult stem cells in research and therapy is not controversial because the production of adult stem cells does not require the destruction of an embryo.

A U.S. appeals court today upheld the legality of federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)-- the latest in a string of wins for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a 3 - year legal battle with groups that for moral reasons want to block the use of these cells.

The only stem cell research he would permit, Bush said, was research using existing embryonic lines as well as so - called adult stem cells, which occur in anyone of any age.

They don't require the use of embryos, so they avoid some of the ethical and legal issues that have complicated research with embryonic stem cells.

This allows embryonic stem cells to be employed as useful tools for both research and regenerative medicine, because they can produce limitless numbers of themselves for continued research or clinical use.

The potential of iPS cells to help treat everything from damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's disease, has prompted intensive research that has looked into the use of skin fibroblast cells as an alternative to controversial embryonic stem cells.

First, promising to restore the integrity of science while seeking vast medical benefits for many, President Obama repealed the restrictions set by President Bush on the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

\ n \ nWhile historically there had been a ban on taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research, there has never been a ban on private funding in this country and many European countries have allowed this type of research for years, but so far none of this research has yielded a single therapeutic use.

After hearing a brief explanation that laid out the different sources of stem cells (but left undiscussed their current uses or future potential for therapy), the respondents offered a slightly more nuanced set of views, and only a slight majority (52 %) supported embryonic stem cell research.

Twenty - seven human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines are ethically derived and should be approved for use in research funded by the US linkurl: National Institutes of Health; http://www.nih.gov/ (NIH), a committee advising the NIH director linkurl: recommended today (December 4).

His executive order allowed funding on embryonic stem - cell lines derived from embryos that had already been destroyed, but excluded funding of research using stem cells from embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001 (the date of his announced policy).

April 2012 - New research: Illuminating embryonic stem cells Collaboration between two EU funded projects «Heroic» and «EuroSyStem», has provided new insights into embryonic stem cells The teams used next generation sequencing technology to examine two key properties of the cells that influence their identity and behaviour: gene expression and gene regulation.

The birthday greeting contained an unintended irony, for while CIRM was approved by California voters a decade ago to give priority funding to human embryonic stem cell research, eight of the 10 approved clinical trials referenced by City of Hope were for research projects using adult and other non-embryonic stem cells.

Professor Martinez - Arias and colleagues, supported by the European Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, have reconstructed these early stages of development using mouse embryonic stem cells.

The centre aims to integrate, coordinate and promote research at the University of Milan on the biology of both adult and embryonic stem cells and their possible applications in medicine, pharmacology, toxicology and veterinary use.

The guidelines were originally produced to offer a common set of ethical standards for the responsible conduct of research using human embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to produce all the body's cell types.

Biochemist Thomas Baldwin, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, in a letter to the House and Senate appropriations committees, wrote that «research using fetal tissue and embryonic stem cells advances scientific knowledge, improves human health, and saves lives.»

To determine how valid the objection against funding of human embryonic stem cell research is because of its use of human embryos, it's important to understand two key aspects of hESCs» unique biology and derivation.

At a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, the president said he couldn't accept a bill that would underwrite research using new lines of embryonic stem cells — even though that research could find cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other illnesses.

Until then, however, «although there is excitement that iPS cells can serve as an embryo - free source of stem cells,» says Lanza, «it would be premature to abandon research using embryonic stem cells until we fully understand what's causing these problems.»

On March 9, 2009, President Obama lifted the ban that had previously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research on cell lines that had been created after August 9, 2001.

Ms. Roxland concurrently served as the Special Advisor to the Commissioner of Health on Stem Cell Research Ethics, where she spearheaded creation of state - wide rules on embryonic stem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampStem Cell Research Ethics, where she spearheaded creation of state - wide rules on embryonic stem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampCell Research Ethics, where she spearheaded creation of state - wide rules on embryonic stem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological Research Ethics, where she spearheaded creation of state - wide rules on embryonic stem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampstem cell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampcell protocols, human - animal chimera research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological research, compensation of women who donate their oocytes to stem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampstem cell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological sampcell research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological research, informed consent processes, re-contact for return of research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological research results and incidental findings, and downstream uses of biological samples.

For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries.

Their promise was so great that when President Obama announced last March that he was lifting the ban on the use of federal money for research on human embryonic stem cells, critics on the right were apoplectic: iPS cells, they said, made such a move scientifically unjustified.

The discovery, by scientists at Kyoto University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, seemed to promise a way out of the bitter debates over embryonic - stem - cell research: rather than using human embryos as a source of stem cells, produce them from adult cells.

Protocols were previously approved by the University of California San Diego Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, the Institutional Review Board and the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee.

Pending legislation from the Department of Health governing assisted human reproduction and associated research, Science Foundation Ireland is not in a position to fund research using human embryonic stem cells.

«The financial situation in California for stem - cell research is so much better,» said Freed, who uses embryonic stem cells in search of cures for Parkinson's disease.

A new regulatory notice published this week proposes a rules adjustment that would slightly expand the definition of human embryonic stem cells eligible for use in federally funded research.

Currently, stem cell research focuses on renewal and differentiation of stem cells and the molecular mechanisms of its pluripotency - or their ability to develop into any type of cell - using human embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and stem cells in simpler organisms.

It is a technology, which purpose is obtaining embryonic stem cells for research and use in the treatment of various human diseases.