The team
used human embryonic stem cells — which can transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow human brain cells.
Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by
using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.
Then, a team led by Robert Lanza, the chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and his colleagues published the first results ever of a clinical trial
using human embryonic stem cells.
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.
Ottmar Wiestler and Oliver Brüstle intend to grow neural transplantation cells
using human embryonic stem cells, in a project that has been scientifically approved.
If that's the case, it is tempting to blame President George W. Bush's restrictions on research
using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
Scientists are champing at the bit to find out what President George W. Bush's newly revealed policy will really mean for research
using human embryonic stem cells.
It has taken more than five years of graft, but at long last approval has been given for the first clinical trial
using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
In the first published results from a clinical trial
using human embryonic stem cells, two legally blind patients who received an injection of hESC - derived cells in one eye have experienced no harmful side effects and appear to have slightly better vision.
After many delays, the first FDA - approved experiment in people of a therapy made
using human embryonic stem cells began in October.
April 2011 - European Court of Justice patenting case Stem cell scientists have raised serious concerns about the impact of a possible ban on patents for techniques
using human embryonic stem cells.
Researchers have treated the first two patients in the second government - authorized attempt to evaluate a therapy created
using human embryonic stem cells in the United States.
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.
Other groups are
using human embryonic stem cells, and others are exploring RPE - specific stem cells that can be grown from the adult RPE, for example, from eyes donated to eye banks.
A solution to the ethical dilemma of
using human embryonic stem cells to treat human diseases could be staring us in the face.
«For a nice two decades scientists have dreamt about
using human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases... that day has finally come... scientists have used human embryonic stem cells to successfully treat patients suffering from severe vision loss»
Government regulators have given the go - ahead to a second study that will for the first time carefully test a treatment created
using human embryonic stem cells in people, according to the company sponsoring the experiment.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
A few weeks ago we all heard the announcement of a major scientific breakthrough that allowed scientists to create the equivalent of
human embryonic stem cells (called induced pluripotent
stem cells) but without
using or destroying embryos.
Scientists looking for new methods to make
human tissue have successfully
used cloning technology to create
embryonic stem cells from skin
cells.
Just before Thanksgiving, news broke about a new
stem -
cell technique that could produce the equivalent of
embryonic stem cells (ESCs) but without
using or destroying
human embryos.
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.
I have oft asserted that the
embryonic stem cell debate is not the far end of the instrumental
use of unborn
humans, but the launching pad.
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.
To make the HSCs, the Harvard group
used human skin
cells to create induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs), adult
cells researchers genetically reprogram to an
embryonic -
stem -
cell state, where they can grow into any kind of
cell.
On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all
human cloning methods, including efforts to
use cloned
embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.
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.
Trials of
cells made from
human embryonic stem cells are also poised to begin in people with type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time
embryonic stem cells have been
used in the treatment of major lethal diseases.
The study results were found
using mouse
embryonic stem cells, which are good
cell models for the study of processes seen in
human stem cells.
Researchers at Geron, meanwhile, had successfully derived neurons from
human embryonic stem cells and were pursuing research that would eventually look to repair the damage caused by spinal - cord injuries, a possible
use for
embryonic stem cells that was much touted at the time.
Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different
human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver
cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and
embryonic stem cells.
But the factor that may make the discovery very significant is that umbilical cord blood can be saved, stored and multiplied without any of the ethical dilemmas facing
embryonic stem cell use, which are derived from
human fetuses.
The creation of the Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB) reflects «a change in the Spanish public policy regarding derivation and
use of
human embryonic stem cells (HESC), based on a progressive evolution of the public awareness and sensibility of the Spanish [citizenry],» says CMRB Director Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte in an e-mail.
The
stem cells, derived from
human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an
embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional
use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.
In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful
use of somatic
cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce
human embryonic stem cells from an individual's skin
cell.
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.
To see whether cancer
stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that
used by
embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two
human breast cancer
cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.
The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of
human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion
cells, and then
using that
cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting
cells.
In this way they act like
embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for
using and then destroying
human embryos.
Starting in the mid-2000s, Yoshiki Sasai's team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, demonstrated how to grow brainlike structures
using embryonic stem cells, first from mice and then
humans.
Stem cell advocates have been expressing serious worry that ethical requirements spelled out in the draft guidelines — in particular, informed consent procedures for embryo donors — will rule out the use of many existing human embryonic stem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush Administrat
Stem cell advocates have been expressing serious worry that ethical requirements spelled out in the draft guidelines — in particular, informed consent procedures for embryo donors — will rule out the
use of many existing
human embryonic stem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush Administrat
stem cell lines, including the 21 lines approved under the Bush Administration.
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.
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».
• News of
Embryonic Stem Cells • A University of Wisconsin team used human embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blo
Embryonic Stem Cells • A University of Wisconsin team used human embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood c
Cells • A University of Wisconsin team
used human embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blo
embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood c
cells to form
cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood c
cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood
cellscells.
Independently of the technical possibilities, we have to respect the ethical standpoint that the
use of
embryonic stem cells means the
use of
human life for other purposes.
THE world's first cloned
human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be
used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.
Many scientists argue that so - called research cloning, in which cloned
human embryos might be
used to produce
embryonic stem (ES)
cells, could be a boon to medicine.
They
used the gene editing technology CRISPR to engineer a series of
human embryonic stem cell lines, which were identical apart from the number of DNA repeats that occurred at the ends of their HTT genes.
I don't think we need the same level of regulation as for
human embryonic stem cells, for example, because we are not
using any embryos.