Since 2009 NIH guidelines have prohibited funding experiments in
which human stem cells are injected into primate embryos or in which human - animal chimeras breed.
But its September decision bars experiments in
which human stem cells are injected into very early embryos.
They prohibit breeding animals in
which human stem cells might have become sperm or eggs, and they rule out primate - human experiments.
Not exact matches
On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain
stem - cell therapies,
which will be key for
human trials like the heart - muscle - regeneration program.
For example, using 3 - D bioprinters —
which can print the structure of
human tissue with biodegradable material — and
stem cells,
which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually
human tissue.
Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions
stem from the Neolithic Revolution,
which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History of the
Human Race.
For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic
stem cell research,
which destroys
human lives, passed with 97 percent support.
«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to
stem the flow of
human trafficking,
which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»
When I reflect on the infinite pains to
which the
human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief
which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?
But the destruction of trust in
human existence is the inner poisoning of the total
human organism from
which this sickness
stems.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining
human pluripotent
stem cells that does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of
human embryos for research»
which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
Religious dogma
stems from a time in
which human rights and moral norms were far different from today.
It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism
which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing of
human values, or a natural law of morality, that the center of New Testament ethics lies in the love requirement
which in turn
stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.
Indeed, I see a lot of the contempt for animals I see in this world
stemming from the
human hubris of assuming that we are fundamentally separate from the animal world,
which we clearly aren't and evolutionary theory explains a lot about how deeply rooted in the rest of the animate world we are.
This way of understanding the
human person,
which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6
There are luminous moments in beholding a very young infant in
which one is aware of an absolute, timeless, pervasive peace
which stems in part from a consciousness that, at least for a very short while, it is within one's power to meet every need of another
human being.
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.
This lack of regard for the specific praxis that Jesus deliberately espouses,
which may be said to lie in the consciousness that he embodied the dynamics of kingdom,
stemmed from Banerjea's and Upadhyaya's failure to project the historical Jesus as the paradigm of
human living.
America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity
stems from its people's love for individual rights,
which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no
human agency dare oppose.
This risk is overlooked when considering safe outcomes for birth based on birth site,
which is an incredible oversight considering the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services» has recently concluded that 9.5 % of all deaths each year in the U.S.
stems from a medical error.
«There are perfectly ethical ways of obtaining
stem cells to cure disease,
which do not involve embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places on the
human embryo, we do not need to use it.»
Scherz, in his presentation, warned against «disembodied» AI theory that
stemmed from Cartesian philosophy, in
which the
human body is just a mechanism, and
human experience can be demeaned.
Elsewhere, the Directorate for Education and
Human Resources (EHR),
which funds a wide array of
STEM programs, would be reduced by $ 119 million or 13.6 percent below last year enacted, with a particularly sharp cut to graduate research fellowships.
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).
To understand if cell sex might be an additional important factor influencing outcomes, the team incubated nanoparticles with
human amniotic
stem cells (hAMSCs)
which were extracted from the amniotic layer of placenta attached to male and female fetuses.
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.
So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed
human bone marrow
stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the
human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF),
which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.
Anand and his colleague Susan McKay started with
human skin cells,
which they turned into induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs) using a tried - and - tested method.
Then, to boost the number of cells,
which is another hurdle in tissue engineering, the researchers mixed the chondrocytes with
human mesenchymal
stem cells from bone marrow.
A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has used a gene - editing tool known as CRISPR to repair the gene that causes sickle cell disease in
human stem cells,
which they say is a key step toward developing a gene therapy for the disorder.
One patient, described in a paper in The Lancet, survived for 2 years after receiving the artificial trachea,
which incorporated
human 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.
With respect to the latter, it states, «no one shall be under a duty to participate in any manner of research on
human stem cells to
which he has a conscientious objection.»
Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these
human stem cells,
which are found in bone marrow.
Svendsen is more optimistic about his team's work involving
human tests of a novel
stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in
which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.
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.
Wells's team first turned
human skin cells into pluripotent
stem cells,
which can grow into any type of tissue.
The patch is made of eye cells made from
human embryonic
stem cells, and it has been designed for treating the «dry» form of macular degeneration,
which accounts for 90 per cent of all cases, and affects 1.7 million people in the US.
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.
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.
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.
This is in stark contrast to much previous work,
which has focused on
human embryonic
stem cells, or hESCs.
In the past year, the South Korean Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first three
stem - cell treatments — Hearticellgram - AMI, Cupistem and Cartistem —
which followed on the heels of clinical tests for
human embryonic
stem - cell therapies approved in 2010, according to the health ministry.
Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce
human mesenchymal
stem cells (or hMSCs,
which are derived from bone marrow) to differentiate into neuron - like cells: treating them with exosomes.
More recently, researchers have induced
stem cells from diseased
human somatic cells,
which may serve as new model systems for various illnesses.
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 results,
which are published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports, show that
human stem cells that are transplanted to the injured spinal cord contribute to restoration of some sensory functions.
Glioblastomas in lab dishes and mouse brains are fakes, little Potemkin villages that everyone thought were faithful replicas of
human glioblastomas but
which, lacking tumor
stem cells, were nothing of the kind.
The A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the U-M Medical School also supported the work,
which was reviewed and approved by the U-M
Human Pluripotent
Stem Cell Research Oversight committee and Institutional Review Board.
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.