Sentences with phrase «which embryonic»

The first are those changes which supervene by reason of the conditions under which the embryonic or adult life of the individual is developing, these being influences on the body or soma and not on the germ - cells.

Michael Richardson, an embryologist at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London, began to wonder about Haeckel's drawings because they didn't square with his understanding of the rates at which embryonic fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals develop their physical features.

It is at this stage, when the fertilized egg is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, that researchers extract the inner part of the blastocyst, from which embryonic stem cells are derived.

That includes not only procedures in which embryonic - stem - cell lines are created, but also those that use previously derived cell lines.

Obviously one must reckon with Greek influence upon the origin of Christianity from the very beginning, (All the more as the Qumrân texts show that the Judaism to which embryonic Christianity was so closely connected was already itself influenced by Hellenism.

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«I saw a very specific market need for E-commerce solutions,» she says, an area in which she had never worked with Microsoft, «but I knew that their E-commerce strategy was embryonic and needed partner validation and adoption.»

Yet the latter form, which is present some eight weeks after fertilization, is not only ethically unacceptable for research but also far too old to yield embryonic stem cells.»

In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem - cell research]-- which did slow down this [adult stem - cell] research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»

For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human lives, passed with 97 percent support.

The NIH defines totipotent cells as the source of both embryonic stem cells and of trophoblast cells which give rise to extra-embryonic tissues such as the placenta.

In his pre-natal existence the embryonic person passes through various stages remarkably similar to those by which the whole race has developed by biological evolution.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

One of the more primitive arguments put forward is that in the embryonic stage, which lasts about two months after conception, the creature does not look human.

It is apparent that the thought which developed later of a great day coming which could bring the joy of God's favor to the righteous and stern judgment on the unrighteous is here in an embryonic state.

The facts which our incipient, embryonic democracy must face are more staggering than the old tyrants were — for example, that at the last presidential election almost twenty - eight million people who were qualified to vote did not exercise that privilege; that an accredited estimate is possibly true that in the United States four million people are living in destitution.

The ultimate goal of our laboratory is to generate ES - like cells directly from somatic cells by nuclear reprogramming... which converts adult cells back into embryonic state.

Today's embryonic global culture is secular in nature, however much it may draw its values from the Christian and other cultures which have preceded it.

Continuing the analogy of natural growth, we could say that there is this gradual assimilation in the embryonic stage of the seed (which is not obviously observable from the outside) before it puts out shoots above ground.

This leads to the suggestion that in cases in which a homeless alcoholic seems to have even an embryonic desire for help, it may be wise to discuss the matter with an AA member who has himself lived on Skid Row, rather than referring the person directly to the Salvation Army.

Although Paul's theology was destined to be the dominant model for all later Christian thinking, it is fortunate that the New Testament preserves for us some other embryonic theological patterns, notably the Johannine writings which go so far as to express this theology in the form of speeches attributed to Jesus.

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

The first page of Larsen's Human Embryology states that, `... [W] e begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes [sperm and egg], which will unite at fertilisation to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual».

Despite all this, Instone - Brewer expresses his preference for the findings of the 1984 Warnock Report, which recognised the embryonic human being's moral status only after 14 days.

For this reason, Evans counsels Christians to avoid the «embryonic life» narrative, which holds innocent human life to be inviolable from conception to natural death, because invoking the value of unborn life pushes people into pugilistic abortion - rights corners.

Many of the eschatological motifs which flourished in later apocalypses are to be found in embryonic form in Isaiah 24 - 27 a passage sometimes referred to as «the Little Apocalypse».

This complex society may be said to begin with conception, or with a late stage of embryonic development, or with early childhood, depending upon the purpose which determines what one takes as its defining characteristic.

From a science perspective, true yam is a root vegetable belonging to the Dioscoreaceae family, which are monocotyledons (or «monocots» for short, with the prefix «mono» referring to the fact that they have only one embryonic seed leaf).

But the reunification deal shows the extent to which Nixon's embryonic candidacy has already shaken up politics in the state.

However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.

Instead, after several days, researchers harvest embryonic stem cells, which theoretically can develop into any type of cell and, according to many researchers, may someday be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or other conditions.

Former Governor Martin O'Malley (D — MD) has supported stem - cell research involving human embryos (although he is a devout member of the Catholic Church, which has opposed many forms of embryonic stem cell research).

The discovery is promising for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch in 2018 on a mission to study these embryonic galaxies from the universe's distant dawn in much more detail.

Further ahead, he is looking to an emerging technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in which adult cells are reprogrammed to be like embryonic stem cells so they can transform into any type of cell.

Repeated transfection of two expression plasmids, one containing the complementary DNAs (cDNAs) of Oct3 / 4, Sox2, and Klf4 and the other containing the c - Myc cDNA, into mouse embryonic fibroblasts resulted in iPS cells without evidence of plasmid integration, which produced teratomas when transplanted into mice and contributed to adult chimeras.

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.

Endocytosis of Frizzled 4 (Fz4) in human embryonic kidney 293 cells was dependent on added Wnt5A protein and was accomplished by the multifunctional adaptor protein β - arrestin 2 (βarr2), which was recruited to Fz4 by binding to phosphorylated Dvl2.

The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

Existing European patents involving embryonic stem cells — most of which were issued in the United Kingdom — will not be invalidated immediately, but lawsuits challenging individual patents will use the ruling as guidance.

Then his team turned to liver cells, which seemed from previous reprogramming experiments to be easier to send back to an embryonic state.

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.

Until now, cows have been cloned almost exclusively from embryonic cells, which are difficult to maintain in the lab and are less amenable than fetal cells — which have not specialized into distinct organs — to genetic tinkering.

«We're now developing a new bioreactor to make considerably more, which means we can make thousands and thousands more stem cells than are available from embryonic sources,» says McGuckin.

CMRB has two parts: the Cell Line Bank of Barcelona, which generates and maintains embryonic stem cell lines, and the CMRB research centre, which carries out basic and applied research to design future strategies for regenerative medicine.

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

Many scientists credit it with providing a safe harbor for embryonic stem cell research, which has often come under political attack, and boosting stem cell research more broadly.

Researchers called them induced pluripotent cells, which are created by enticing cells to turn on genes normally found in embryonic stem cells.

Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) School of Medicine.

The newly discovered human cells, named «cord - blood - derived embryonic - like stem cells» or CBEs, are not quite as primitive as embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to any tissue type of the body.

An embryo donated for research revealed two inner cell masses (ICMs, internal cluster of cells at the embryonic pole of the blastocyst which develops into the body of the embryo), which is a sign of monochorionic / diamniotic pregnancy that will give rise to MZ twins.

In the latest study, the researchers hypothesize that the downregulation of these three genes reprograms the cells so that they return to an embryonic - like state, in which they have the potential to give rise to a number of different cell types.