Just fill up the vat
with embryonic stem cell fluid, pop in a tissue sample and set the dial to «gestate.»
Please do not allow yourself to be misled into thinking that the only hope for your grandson lies
with embryonic stem cell research.
The study, which followed four individuals for a year after they were treated
with embryonic stem cell - derived retinal pigment epithelial cells for macular degeneration, observed no serious side effects (tumor growth or other unexpected effects) related to the therapy.
«We can work
with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.
Very little has been accomplished
with embryonic stem cells.
«The title [Congress on Responsible Stem Cell Research] was what put me off, and I thought this isn't an open discussion at all; this is going to be all about proponents for adult stem cells, and the people working
with embryonic stem cells will be the bad guys,» she says.
In one promising approach, cellular reprogramming, stem cells can be generated by fusing adult skin cells
with embryonic stem cells from existing cell lines.
Is a new clinical trial
with embryonic stem cells the breakthrough the field has been waiting for?
On the other hand, the problem is, you know,
with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.
But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible
with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.
Stem cells from adult bone marrow normally generate bone, muscle, cartilage and fat cellsa limited set compared
with embryonic stem cells, which can spawn the full spectrum of adult tissues.
Around the same time, Yoshiki Sasai of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, cultured the first brain organoids, starting not with adult stem cells but
with embryonic stem cells.
When he injected mice
with embryonic stem cells genetically identical to the mice's own tissues, the new cells thrived, growing into a large clump of adult tissues.
These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have the ability to become almost any cell type and can divide indefinitely, so share many features
with embryonic stem cells.
They need exactly the right kind of cell, which is what we are reporting
with embryonic stem cells.
You can do all kinds of tricks
with embryonic stem cells, but if they come from another individual, you still have the problem of rejection.
And thus avoid some of the ethical concerns of working
with embryonic stem cells.
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.
You're going to replace every cell in the brain
with embryonic stem cells?»
Researchers have developed a new technique for creating human embryonic stem cells by fusing adult somatic cells
with embryonic stem cells.
Scientists and patient advocacy groups pushed back, claiming that work
with embryonic stem cells was vital for medical progress.
New planarian tissues and organs are created by neoblasts - adult stem cells that share certain characteristics
with embryonic stem cells and can differentiate into essentially all the cells in adult animals.
It is to these cells that Zernicka - Goetz attributes her success, as she believes the trophoblast stem cells communicate
with the embryonic stem cells and help them evolve.
Instead of starting
with embryonic stem cells, as Astellas does, several other research groups are working with retinal progenitor cells found in the eye.
These cells, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, hold promise, but scientists would still like the opportunity to pursue work
with the embryonic stem cells.
Let's find out — starting
with embryonic stem cells.
Jang has conducted research
with embryonic stem cells in the past, but she and others are finding great promise in another kind of stem cell called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.
The problem
with embryonic stem cells, for some people, is that they originally come from destroyed embryos.
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The fundamental impediment to our acceptance of
embryonic stem cell research has to do
with destruction of the human embryo.
Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together
with pre-implantation diagnosis,
embryonic stem -
cell research, and attempts at human cloning.
Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances
with induced pluripotent
stem cells ---
stem cells that are «
embryonic - like» but that are not derived from embryos.
For instance, a strong resolution opposing
embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human lives, passed
with 97 percent support.
research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «
stem -
cells» has become synonymous
with «
embryonic stem -
cells» in the public imagination.
The author says the moral cost involved is the reason why she believes
embryonic stem cell research is not consonant
with Christian faith.
Rather,
embryonic stem cells have already undergone epigenetic restriction and can not produce an organized body
with all of its required parts.
In all likelihood, soon after he is sworn in, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new
embryonic stem -
cell lines, bringing
with it new battles to fight.
In «
Stem Cells: A Political History» (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson make a plausible sounding case that the errors manifest in politicizing the science of embryonic stem - cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in gene
Stem Cells: A Political History» (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson make a plausible sounding case that the errors manifest in politicizing the science of
embryonic stem - cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in gene
stem -
cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science
with politics in general.
Not surprisingly, President Obama received high marks from the journal, largely because his response to the question of whether he would lift Bush's ban on the federal funding of new
embryonic stem -
cell lines is in line
with the view of most in the scientific community.
In fact, when the 2007 paper came out, the commentaries in most scientific publications were quick to point out that, despite the success
with adult
cells, there was still a need to continue embryo - destructive research and that it would be critical to the advancement of science that research on
embryonic stem cells continue.
In 2005, before a Congressional hearing in the U.S., Prof. George Q. Daley of Harvard spoke forcefully and influentially about the necessity for
embryonic stem -
cell research to go ahead, and dismissed suggestions that one could work instead
with «induced pluripotent
stem cells» («iPS», i.e.
stem cells reprogrammed from some
cells of a living adult).
Since
embryonic stem -
cell research systematically kills thousands of unborn babies, a practice that only orcs would contemplate in Middle - earth, it is clear that Jackson and Walsh have sided
with the Dark Lord.
Example in point: Opposition to
embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research
with some mammals.
He decreed that the case brought by researchers Drs James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, along
with a number of Christian groups including the Christian Medical Association, should be heard; and ordered an injunction temporarily blocking federal funding allocated for human -
embryonic -
stem -
cell research.
Another possible advantage of using the Dolly method to produce
embryonic stem cells is that it takes just days, compared
with weeks for iPS
cells.
The scientific question is whether
embryonic stem cells produced
with the Dolly method are superior to those created
with the iPS method.
Advocates of
embryonic stem cell research were thought to be in a long line of pioneers fighting the restraints of religious doctrine to push forward
with scientific research.
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner, talked about Catholic dissent from the Pope's hardline, intolerant opposition to liberation theology, women's rights, gay equality, contraception, fertility treatment,
embryonic stem cell research and the Pope's collusion
with Holocaust deniers and appeasers.
Breaking ranks
with the Bush administration, Pirro said she favors
embryonic stem cell research and argued the federal ban on assault weapons should not have been allowed to expire.
The researchers detected this SMN long noncoding RNA, or lnc - RNA (pronounced «link RNA») for short, in human
embryonic kidney
cells, brain
cell samples and neurons derived from the
stem cells of healthy people and those
with spinal muscular atrophy type I and II.