Sentences with phrase «with human stem»

The ethical minefield created by the possibility of seeding mouse embryo scaffolds with human stem cells, and possibly growing a functional, if mini, human brain, has been trickier to navigate.

Now, they're working to see if the MM - 401 eraser technique works with human stem cells that bear some resemblance to mouse epiblast stem cells.

Embryonic» and «senescent» aren't supposed to go together any more than «good» and «grief» or other oxymorons, which is why biologist Robert Lanza was «devastated» when he saw what was happening with the human stem cells he and colleagues were trying to grow.

Typically, this involves creating a «scaffold» of natural or synthetic materials, seeding it with human stem cells that can differentiate themselves into particular tissue types, and providing the cells with nutrients and a physical environment that encourages them to take on the three - dimensional structures and functions of a particular body part.

However, until now, we did not know how they interact with human stem cells and if indeed, they could be used in biomedical applications.

ig embryos that had been injected with human stem cells when they were only a few days old began to grow organs containing human cells, scientists reported on Thursday, an advance that promises — or threatens — to bring closer the routine production of creatures that are part human and part something else.

The MS mice treated with human stem cells experience a reversal of symptoms.

Mice severely disabled by a multiple sclerosis (MS)-- like condition could walk less than two weeks following treatment with human stem cells.

HIV can not copy itself in mouse cells, so they purchased mice that had deliberately crippled immune systems and then rebuilt them with human stem cells.

While the research reported in this paper manipulated pluripotent mouse cells, the researchers have moved ahead in performing similar studies with human stem cells and achieved comparable types of results with the microparticle delivery approaches.

If the researchers can get the technique to work with human stem cells, she says, it could help the one in 3000 people born with a form of blindness caused by damaged retinal cells and the many more who lose their sight because of age - related disease.

With human stem cells, researchers can recreate human tissue in the lab.

Most experiments with human stem cells have only shown that the cells can acquire the phenotype of various differentiated cell types, but have not shown that the cells are functional at the transplantation site.

The Porteus team started with human stem cells from the blood of patients with sickle cell disease, corrected the gene mutation using CRISPR and then concentrated the human stem cells so that 90 percent carried the corrected sickle cell gene.

To start with human stem cells will be a powerful way to understand what goes on in the development of human physiology.

Wolves were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago and it is widely assumed that the ability of domestic dogs to form close relationships with humans stems from changes during the domestication process.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.

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.»

The porous self stems from the social imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled with other humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

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.

At its base, Pannenberg's compatibility (of divine all - determination with human responsibility) stems from the unique nature of a determining activity that has its locus in the future.

Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic make - up as adult patients.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

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.

Niebuhr's realism required «recognizing that the imperfections of the world stemmed from fallen human nature, that the social implications of human selfishness had to be reckoned with, that to improve the world it would be necessary to work with human limitations and not dream of obliterating them.

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.

That stems, says Orioles manager Buck Showalter, from unfamiliarity, from the fact that there simply aren't all that many human beings who can throw a baseball well with their left hand.

Stem cells are unique because they are essentially the body's building blocks; these are the only cells in the human body that have the ability to regenerate more cells with specialized functions.

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.

Frankenbunnies Embryos made by Chinese researchers who fused human skin cells with rabbit eggs, hoping to create a source of stem cells.

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.

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.

Through the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity and with the support of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation officer's grant awarded in February 2005, AAAS has offered STEM human resource development consulting (on a cost - sharing basis).

First mouse cells were turned into «totipotent» stem cells, and now early work suggests the same might have been achieved with human cells

Two people with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells.

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.

Faced with an often - hostile Congress, Obama enacted many of his signature policies by executive order — from reversing restrictions on research with human embryonic stem cells to helping communities prepare for climate change.

To see whether this also applies to humans, the team engineered stem cells from people with and without Down's syndrome and injected them into mice.

Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from human stem cells.

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.

A strong supporter of human embryo stem cell research, the senator joined with hundreds of legislators from both parties after Ronald Reagan's death in a renewed plea for Bush to remove restrictions.

According to this new hypothesis, the disease might be the oldest human - specific infection, with roots that likely stem back millions of years.

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.

Immunohistochemical imaging of female human amniotic stem cells incubated with nanoparticles demonstrated a significant increase in uptake compared to male cells.