Sentences with phrase «whilst human cells»

However, it is possible to have «brain death» as defined here, whilst human cells themselves still are alive, and organs continue to function.

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Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

Meyer et al 2009 [24] have recently shown that iPS cells can be differentiated towards retinal cell types whilst a paper by Buchholz et al 2009 [25] has shown that human iPS cells can be differentiated into retinal pigment epithelial cells which display functionality in vitro.