• Since the cell strains in use originate from abortions, there has been opposition to the practice and the resulting vaccines on religious and moral grounds. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Pontifical Academy for Life determined that the good of public health outweighs the distanced cooperation in the evil of the abortions performed in the 1960s from which the cell lines were developed. (ncregister.com)
  • No new abortions have been performed to maintain these vaccines, and no cells from the victims of the abortions are contained in the vaccines. (ncregister.com)
  • Thanks to women who choose to have abortions and then generously donate their aborted fetuses to medical research, scientists have been able to use fetal tissue to develop all kinds of treatments and cures for diseases. (wonkette.com)
  • Vaccines for hepatitis A, German measles, chickenpox and rabies, for example, were developed using cell lines grown from tissue from two elective abortions, one in England and one in Sweden, that were performed in the 1960s. (wonkette.com)
  • The Obama-appointed director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that human fetal tissue from elective abortions "will continue to be the mainstay" for federal research. (breitbart.com)
  • Prior to Collins' comments, some pro-life members of Congress were encouraged last week when NIH announced it would spend up to $20 million on alternatives to the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions for research. (breitbart.com)
  • In its announcement, NIH said in the near future it would be seeking grant applications for the development of "models that closely mimic and can be used to faithfully model human embryonic development or other aspects of human biology, for example, the human immune system, that do not rely on the use of human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions. (breitbart.com)
  • The Trump administration's policy required all applicants for NIH grants involving fetal tissue from elective abortions to be reviewed by an ethics board, but a notice released by the NIH Friday states that "HHS/NIH will not convene another NIH Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board. (christianpost.com)
  • It says, "HHS is reversing its 2019 decision that all research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions will be reviewed by an Ethics Advisory Board. (christianpost.com)
  • and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., leaders of a group of 26 Democratic House members calling for the lifting of the restriction on research involving fetal tissue from elective abortions, said. (christianpost.com)
  • The NIH is funding a $20 million program to "develop, demonstrate, and validate experimental models that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions. (chicagotribune.com)
  • NIH "has directed funding toward the development of alternative research methods that do not rely on human fetal tissue from elective abortions and I remain supportive of that effort. (chicagotribune.com)
  • During the July 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , host Bill O'Reilly asked Republican presidential Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) to compare fetal tissue donation from abortions to so-called "Nazi stuff," adding "this is what they did in the Third Reich with these experiments. (mediamatters.org)
  • The new policy bans testing HIV therapies on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions. (queerty.com)
  • They argue that the research supports abortions but have taken part in receiving vaccines and therapy that comes from the research. (ipl.org)
  • If the proposed research involves aborted fetal tissue, the application to FTR will include a written explanation of the need for human fetal tissue from induced abortions. (umn.edu)
  • ABP will procure human fetal tissue from tissue procurement organizations or clinics outside Minnesota that operate in compliance with federal law and applicable state laws and certify they do not obtain tissue from abortions performed in Minnesota. (umn.edu)
  • The Trump administration banned federal funding for scientific research on fetal tissue from abortions. (npr.org)
  • MCCAMMON: Now, this tissue is often obtained from abortions. (npr.org)
  • The first was to ban NIH funding for what's known as intramural research - essentially just programs within the agency - that involved newly obtained fetal tissue from abortions, from more recent abortions. (npr.org)
  • These are derived either from tumors, which have developed resistance to cellular senescence, or from stem cells originally taken from aborted fetuses. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many who oppose vaccines on religious grounds do so because the cell lines of some vaccines were developed from cells of aborted fetuses. (ncregister.com)
  • In banning any and all products , food or otherwise, it is essentially banning the importation to Oklahoma of any products made from embryonic stem cells, since one cannot determine which cells are or are not derived from aborted fetuses. (thestranger.com)
  • We do not need fetal body parts from aborted babies to achieve future scientific and medical advancements," Lee said in her prepared testimony. (breitbart.com)
  • For decades, proponents of destructive embryo research have given at least lip service recognition to the serious ethical concerns inherent to such research. (flfamily.org)
  • The chickenpox, rubella, hepatitis A, shingles and one rabies vaccine all derive from fetal embryo fibroblast cells cultivated in the 1960s -- and Catholic leadership has wrestled with the ethics of using those vaccines. (salon.com)
  • The predominant bioethical concern arising from this technology is that the blastocyt-stage embryo must be destroyed in the process of isolating and separating the embryonic stem cells from the inner mass region of the pre-embryo. (jcpa.org)
  • The destruction of the pre-embryo has been the critical issue in the U.S. behind imposing limits on federal government-sponsored research in embryonic stem cells. (jcpa.org)
  • When epithelial cells transform into mesenchyme in the embryo, or when they are induced to do this in vitro, they switch from the keratin intermediate filament profile to one rich in vimentin, and the effect of cell matrix interaction on cell shape is profoundly altered. (nih.gov)
  • This means that anything that happens to the embryo from that point onward is the harming of a human being. (ipl.org)
  • In fact to get a embryonic stem cell a human embryo has to be disassembled. (ipl.org)
  • The destruction and use of a human embryo should not be allow to happen. (ipl.org)
  • People who believe that an embryo should not be destroyed tend to say that embryonic stem cell research should not be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • ABP also may accept donations of human fetal tissue obtained from a stillborn infant, or an embryo or fetus that died of natural causes in utero as authorized under applicable state laws. (umn.edu)
  • Here, courtesy of the National Institutes of Health, in taxpayer-funded black and white, is the reality of America's culture of death: commercial cannibalism of the young of the human species, a business about to break into the mainstream as a coalition of major medical and health organizations, businesses, and associations press for federal funding of lethal embryo research. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Live mumps virus vaccine** is prepared in chick-embryo cell culture. (cdc.gov)
  • Pro-cloning forces have been working hard to convince state governments to pass constitutional amendments enshrining a "right" to clone and to destroy embryos for research. (flfamily.org)
  • The Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act (S.2754) would fund efforts to derive and study cells which have the capabilities of embryonic stem cells but which are not obtained by destroying living human embryos. (christiannewswire.com)
  • It would prevent the use of human fetal tissue (such as fetal stem cells) obtained by growing human embryos in a human or animal uterus in order to provide such tissue. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Let's face it," said Casey, "this bill would nullify the Bush Administration's wise policy of permitting federal funding only on pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines, and promote research using 'new' embryonic stem cell lines that can only be obtained by destroying countless living human embryos that are now 'frozen and unchosen' in IVF fertility clinics or creating such human embryos for research destruction. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Projects carried out using human biological materials such as cells, blood, embryos, foetuses, foetal tissue, human reproductive material or human stem cells. (etsmtl.ca)
  • Embryonic stem cell research "uses special cells found in three-to-five day old human embryos to seek cures for a host of chronic disease" (PRC). (ipl.org)
  • In August of 2003, Australia passed legislation that ensures consumers have the right to know when human embryos, human embryonic stem cells or materials derived from embryos or stem cells are used in the manufacture or testing of pharmaceuticals. (consciencelaws.org)
  • b) Any new prescription or non-prescription drug or medical treatment that will use human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • e) Any person or patient who is the recipient of a prescription or non-prescription drug, vaccination or medical procedure that would involve the use of human fetal or embryonic tissue, cell lines, DNA or components from procured abortion or in-vitro fertilized embryos that have been donated or otherwise produced or reproduced sexually or asexually in research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term. (blessedquietness.com)
  • The stem cells suits human needs, does not cause harm and can be obtained from both adult and fetal does not conflict with religious beliefs, it has tissues, umbilical cord and early embryos. (who.int)
  • Unicellular for those cells that are derived from human organisms are primed to replicate (clone) pre-embryos, which seem to have a high themselves by nature. (who.int)
  • A study in Nature suggests epitope editing in donor stem cells prior to bone marrow transplants can stave off toxicity when targeting acute myeloid leukemia with immunotherapy. (genomeweb.com)
  • However, the success of fetal tissue transplants has been meager at best, and ethically-derived alternatives exist and are coming to dominate the field. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The first recorded fetal tissue transplants were in 1921 in the UK, in a failed attempt to treat Addison's disease, [1] and in 1928 in Italy, in a failed attempt to treat cancer. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • That attempt also failed, as did subsequent similar fetal tissue transplants in 1959. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1970 and 1991 approximately 1,500 people received fetal pancreatic tissue transplants in attempts to treat diabetes, mostly in the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [3] Today, patients take insulin shots and pharmaceuticals to control their diabetes, and adult stem cell transplants have shown success at ameliorating the condition. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [8] Subsequent reports showed that severe problems developed from fetal tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • A second large, controlled study published in 2003 showed similar results (funded by NIH), with over half of the patients developing potentially disabling tremors caused by the fetal brain tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [12] The results of these two large studies led to a moratorium on fetal tissue transplants for Parkinson's. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • This confirmation that brain grafts can innervate host tissue in an apparently normal fashion is especially timely, as an American double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of human fetal dopamine cell transplants has not turned up significant clinical benefit for any but the youngest patients (Freed CR et al. (alzforum.org)
  • Such treatments include allogeneic and xenogeneic transplants and skin substitutes such as tissue-engineered skin, cultured cells, and stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Embryonic stem cell transplants have been an ethical, social, and legal controversy since the first successful transplant of human stem cells in 1998. (ipl.org)
  • One patient who received transplant of fetal brain tissue (from a total of 3 fetuses) died subsequently, and at autopsy was found to have various non-brain tissues ( e.g, skin-like tissue, hair, cartilage, and other tissue nodules) growing in his brain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Piccini and her colleagues took advantage of the built-in control provided by a patient who had received only a unilateral transplant of fetal cells, which was sufficient to bring about significant clinical improvement. (alzforum.org)
  • Very little research is actually being done that currently relies on abortion-derived fetal tissues. (breitbart.com)
  • (2) SOURCE OF TISSUE - Human fetal tissue may be used in research carried out under paragraph (1) regardless of whether the tissue is obtained pursuant to a spontaneous or induced abortion or pursuant to a stillbirth. (hhs.gov)
  • Ending the use of fetal tissue by the National Institutes of Health has been a priority for anti-abortion activists, a core element of President Donald Trump's political base. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The Susan B. Anthony List, a group that works to elect lawmakers opposed to abortion, said in a statement that taxpayer funding ought to go to promoting alternatives to using fetal tissue in medical research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • As regards H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, Casey warned that the bill "violates a wise and fair decades-long policy against forcing taxpayers to support the destruction of early human life whether by abortion or by lethal human experimentation. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Researchers may accept and/or use human fetal tissue for transplantation into a relative of the donor or other individual designated by the donor (i.e., donor-designated recipient) only if the tissue is obtained from a spontaneous abortion or stillbirth. (umn.edu)
  • Many anti-abortion rights activists oppose this research on moral or religious grounds. (npr.org)
  • Doctors involved have to attest that they obtained consent to collect the tissue after a woman had already decided to have an abortion. (npr.org)
  • But people opposed to abortion rights also often oppose this kind of research. (npr.org)
  • Well, if the opposition to fetal tissue research comes mainly from abortion rights opponents, what are they saying today about this latest development? (npr.org)
  • Following the release, last May, of a powerful LifeTalk video featuring "Kelly," a fetal tissue procurer for the Maryland-based Anatomic Gifts Foundation, Life Dynamics has released documentation obtained from fetal tissue wholesalers, that is, companies which place their employees in abortion facilities to harvest tissue, limbs, organs, etc. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Dr. Tara Sander Lee of the Charlotte Lozier Institute testified that human fetal tissue was never needed for research because of viable alternatives such as adult stem cells. (breitbart.com)
  • Researchers use fetal tissue to understand cell biology and human development. (wonkette.com)
  • The Biden administration and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra have dismantled the process of making researchers meet any ethical standards when it comes to harvesting the body parts of aborted children for research. (christianpost.com)
  • We applaud the Biden administration and Secretary Xavier Becerra for prioritizing science and reversing the Trump administration's arbitrary barriers to both extramural and intramural researchers on the use of fetal tissue in scientific research," Reps. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., Mark Pocan, D-Wis. (christianpost.com)
  • Researchers investigating many other conditions, including Parkinson's , also have been known to use embryonic stem cells. (salon.com)
  • Using a workflow combining laser microdissection and single-cell mass spectrometry, the researchers identified more than 1,700 proteins per liver cell. (genomeweb.com)
  • Researchers came up with a single-cell DNA sequencing and immunophenotyping assay for identifying and characterizing AML clones that persist after treatment. (genomeweb.com)
  • Researchers in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances report that how researchers describe genomic studies may alienate potential participants. (genomeweb.com)
  • In a Novartis-sponsored study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that a CRISPR-Cas9-based treatment targeting promoters of genes encoding fetal hemoglobin could reduce disease symptoms. (genomeweb.com)
  • Most researchers obtain embryonic stem cells from the inner mass of a blastocyst, an embryonic stage when a fertilized egg has divided into 128 cells. (jcpa.org)
  • For the controversial experiments, researchers tried to regenerate cartilage and identify a skeletal stem cell by implanting the human tissue into mice. (liveaction.org)
  • University researchers ("researchers") may conduct research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue or cell lines derived from human fetal tissue ("human fetal tissue") for therapeutic purposes only in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations and University policies and procedures. (umn.edu)
  • Researchers must either: 1) obtain the human fetal tissue through ABP or 2) obtain approval from ABP for the source of human fetal tissue supplied by a research sponsor, collaborator or other source. (umn.edu)
  • Fetal tissue is uniquely valuable to medical researchers. (npr.org)
  • However, with the help of a model, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now been able to directly study the development of human macrophages in a living lung. (eurekalert.org)
  • The human fetal progenitor cell that the researchers have identified is a potential cell that can be targeted to regenerate tissue-protective macrophages, limit organ damage and promote tissue repair in an injured lung. (eurekalert.org)
  • A few days after injury, the researchers discovered a population of cells called myofibroblasts (MFs), which play an important role in wound healing, and found that these cells crawled towards the edges of the wound and into the defect site. (kowari.org)
  • Whilst in this study, the researchers show that Cx43 was expressed by two cell populations, amniotic mesenchymal cells (AMCs) and MFs, the localisation and levels of Cx43 measured were different. (kowari.org)
  • Researchers at Lund University have discovered that a specific group of genetic elements in our DNA influence the development of the human brain, their study was published in Science Advances. (lu.se)
  • Researchers at Lund University offer new insights in their latest study, published in Science Advances, detailing how a specific group of genetic elements have influenced the development of the human brain over time. (lu.se)
  • In Lund, researchers are investigating these repetitive regions of our DNA to understand the role transposable elements play in human brain development and evolution. (lu.se)
  • To better understand how these repetitive genetic sequences influence brain development, researchers analyzed both fetal and adult brain tissue samples. (lu.se)
  • Also, as a fancy-pants Ivy League-educated attorney, Cruz should know that he can't prosecute Planned Parenthood for facilitating women's donations of fetal tissue to medical research because that is legal. (wonkette.com)
  • O'Reilly also falsely stated that Planned Parenthood was "selling" the donated fetal tissue. (mediamatters.org)
  • The tissue was acquired from StemExpress , the tissue procurement company that made headlines for its involvement in the Planned Parenthood fetal body part trafficking scandal of 2015. (liveaction.org)
  • With additional evaluation and FDA approval, the new therapy could be tested in human clinical trials. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Today, fetal tissue is still making an impact, with clinical trials underway using cells from fetal tissue to treat conditions including Parkinson's disease, ALS, and spinal cord injury," said Doug Melton, co-director of Harvard's Stem Cell Institute and president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • In 1986 our team in Lund obtained permission to use tissue from aborted human fetuses in a series of open-label clinical trials in patients with Parkinson´s disease (PD). (lu.se)
  • Many other vaccines, including those for chicken pox and rubella, are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue from two pregnancies terminated in the 1960s, for reasons unrelated to vaccine development. (wikipedia.org)
  • While there is a great deal published on the potential medical applications of stem cell research to treat or cure diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and heart disease, much less has been published on the future impact of stem cell research in reproductive medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • Between 1988 and 1994, roughly 140 Parkinson's disease patients received fetal tissue (up to six fetuses per patient), with varying results. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Ten years after a fetal cell transplant, a Parkinson's patient's graft is still delivering dopamine to postsynaptic cells, according to a study appearing in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience. (alzforum.org)
  • The two types of esophageal tissue derived-decellularized extracellular matrix bioinks can mimic the inherent components and composition of original tissues with layer specificity. (nature.com)
  • Electrospinning was considered a promising technology because it can recapitulate microstructures mimicking the environment of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in native tissue. (nature.com)
  • During embryonic development, the extracellular matrix (ECM) promotes the production of differentiated products by epithelial cells and the migration of mesenchymal cells, and probably also plays a role in epithelial-mesenchymal transformation. (nih.gov)
  • stimulate extracellular matrix synthesis and have been implicated in embryogenesis, wound healing, and fibroproliferative responses to tissue injury. (eurekamag.com)
  • Because cells communicate with several extracellular matrix components via specific cell membrane receptors, we hypothesized that TGFs-.beta. (eurekamag.com)
  • Policymakers have the opportunity to hear expert witnesses attest to amazing scientific advancements and discoveries using ethical alternatives to fetal tissue. (flfamily.org)
  • Science reports that NIH director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D . noted Thursday that while research on alternatives to the use of aborted fetal tissue is "scientifically, highly justified," fetal tissue will nevertheless "continue to be the mainstay. (breitbart.com)
  • However, in his comments Thursday, Collins said that even if alternatives are found, "you're going to have to compare it to the current standard, which is using fetal tissue. (breitbart.com)
  • Collins provided his comments just as a House Oversight subcommittee was holding what turned out to be a highly combative hearing to explore alternatives to the use of fetal tissue for research. (breitbart.com)
  • The government's own top medical scientist, NIH Director Francis Collins, said as recently as last December that he believes "there's strong evidence that scientific benefits come from fetal tissue research ," and that fetal tissue, rather than any alternatives, would "continue to be the mainstay" for certain types of research for the foreseeable future. (chicagotribune.com)
  • FTR will assess whether alternatives, including non-aborted human fetal tissue, can be used for the research, and share that assessment with the IRB before the IRB makes its decision. (umn.edu)
  • The magazine said that during the meeting at the National Institutes of Health offices outside Washington in Bethesda, Maryland, Collins said the Department of Health and Human Services is auditing federal purchases of fetal tissue and that the National Institutes of Health has agreed to spend up to $20 million on research on alternatives. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • The same day as the meeting, a congressional subcommittee hearing took place looking into alternatives to using fetal tissue for research. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Fetal Tissue Research: Antiquated and Unethical? (flfamily.org)
  • Research on spinal cord injuries and eyesight-robbing macular degeneration involves transplanting fetal cells into patients. (wonkette.com)
  • The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that government-funded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue for now, subject to additional scrutiny - although it also ended one major university project that used the tissue to test HIV treatments. (chicagotribune.com)
  • He employs an approach called "disease modeling in a dish," which involves growing human cell types and tissues in the laboratory. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • However, even if the exhibit indicates that a requirement is not applicable that requirement potentially could be applicable in a specific situation, e.g., if a contract under a grant involves research activity. (nih.gov)
  • He described alternative forms of research as "scientifically, highly justified" but he also said fetal tissue "will continue to be the mainstay" for research and can be done with an "ethical framework. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • After over 100 years of research, no therapies have been discovered or developed that require aborted fetal tissue," she continued. (breitbart.com)
  • It blocks important future research vital to the development of new therapies. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Regenerative and reparative properties of somatic cell-based therapies hold tremendous promise for repairing injured tissue, preventing and reversing damage to organs, and restoring balance to compromised immune systems. (nih.gov)
  • Fetal cells are considered ideal because they divide rapidly, adapt to new environments easily and are less susceptible to rejection than adult cells when transplanted. (wonkette.com)
  • [5] Conditions such as anemias and immunodeficiencies, for which fetal tissue attempts largely failed, are now treated routinely with adult stem cells, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, [6] even while the patient is still in the womb. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Advocates of stem cell research believe that the cells are not equivalent to human life because it is inside the womb even facing the fact that the start of a human life is in the moment of conception. (ipl.org)
  • Babies born as young as 21 weeks are capable of surviving outside the womb with medical assistance, and CMP's investigation revealed that when fetal tissue is to be used for research, the baby must be healthy and could not have been killed with the aid of a feticide. (liveaction.org)
  • The integrity of the fetal membranes that surround the baby in the womb during pregnancy is vital for normal development. (kowari.org)
  • Paul Wagle, M.A., discusses his experience with a life-saving adult stem cell treatment, and the importance of promoting ethical approaches to medical research. (flfamily.org)
  • The lower-limb paralysis associated with spina bifida may be effectively treated before birth by combining a unique stem cell therapy with surgery, new research has found. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Farmer and Wang are the first to combine fetal surgery with a placental stem cell treatment to reduce the effects of spina bifida, which in children can range from barely noticeable to severe. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Six animals that received the stem cell treatment were able to walk without noticeable disability within a few hours following birth, while six control animals that received just the hydrogel and scaffold were unable to stand. (sciencedaily.com)
  • NIH continued that while human fetal tissue and embryonic stem cell-derived systems have been used for researching human development and diseases, "new technologies raise the potential of reconstituting these model systems without fetal tissue yielding more replicable and reproducible system for broader uses. (breitbart.com)
  • In this Oct. 22, 2008 file photo, research associate Crystal Pacutin pulls a frozen vial of human embryonic stem cells at the University of Michigan Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. An appeals court gave short-term approval Thursday for continuing federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. (christianpost.com)
  • She added that donors "can stipulate where their money goes and can ask that it not pay for embryonic stem cell research. (salon.com)
  • there are reasons to have conversations about embryonic stem cell research and fetal tissue research. (salon.com)
  • 11 - I work in a blood bank in the cord blood/stem cell department. (thestranger.com)
  • We are required to follow "manufacturing guidelines" and legally a transplant unit is considered a product, so actually this could potentially prevent some stem cell products from reaching their recipients. (thestranger.com)
  • Casey suggested that some state laws recently passed to encourage embryonic stem cell research, including one in New Jersey, could allow such "fetal farming" to harvest human body parts. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Through its Law of Life Project, CLS supports ethical stem cell research and opposes the destructive human embryonic stem cell research. (christiannewswire.com)
  • The other idiot Bush was against stem cell research. (queerty.com)
  • However, they can opt to use adult tissue in stem cell research without a problem in federal funding. (queerty.com)
  • This doesn't say that stem cell research is banned. (queerty.com)
  • Judge is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and International Society for Stem Cell Research. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • Immunotherapy has become an important part of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation and cancer therapy. (nih.gov)
  • In order to better appreciate the role of stem cell research in reproductive medicine, there is a need to understand the critical biological principles of stem cell research and its potential applications to medicine. (jcpa.org)
  • Stem cell research is, in part, a quest to understand cellular differentiation, the process by which a human being develops from one fertilized cell into a multicellular organism composed of over 200 different cell types - for example muscle, nerve, blood cell, or kidney. (jcpa.org)
  • Cellular differentiation begins with the fertilized egg which serves as the identifying characteristic of an embryonic stem cell. (jcpa.org)
  • In addition, specific proteins or biological substances can be added to these stem cell cultures to transform them in the laboratory into a large variety of specialized cell types, such as nerve, liver, muscle, bone, and blood cells. (jcpa.org)
  • In 2009, in a major reversal of U.S. policy, President Obama signed an executive order pledging to "vigorously support" embryonic stem cell research. (jcpa.org)
  • When People Say: "Embryonic stem cell research is. (christianliferesources.com)
  • In recent years, the development in cell therapy and stem cell research has led scientist to engage in the production of cells and tissue product that is of clinical grade. (biomedcentral.com)
  • STEM CELL RESEARCH is a very controversial topic in today's time. (ipl.org)
  • Stem cell research is not worth supporting. (ipl.org)
  • In recent years, several competing viewpoints have emerged about embryonic stem cell research. (ipl.org)
  • All of this debate raises an important question, Should embryonic stem cell research be conducted for treatment of present and future diseases? (ipl.org)
  • On the other hand, people who believe that embryonic stem cell research creates means of curing diseases reply that the research should be conducted. (ipl.org)
  • 17 This property of rapid regeneration at intestinal stasis makes the intestine a uniquely convenient model system for epithelial cell biology and adult stem cell biology studies both inside and outside the specific context of intestinal function. (stemcell.com)
  • 18 At the base of the intestinal crypt, the ISCs are found intercalated with Paneth cells, 17 credited with much of the signaling required to maintain the stem cell niche. (stemcell.com)
  • According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, one of the top ten issues that will come before state legislatures this year (2006) relates to rights of conscience in the biomedical field - stem cell experimentation and research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • Last year, states considered more than 170 bills on embryonic and adult stem cell research. (consciencelaws.org)
  • Should embryonic stem cell research be legal? (consciencelaws.org)
  • Should the state fund adult stem cell research instead? (consciencelaws.org)
  • Furthermore, the decreased expression of the EZH2 gene is crucial for stem cell differentiation into specific cell lineages involved in myogenesis, adipogenesis, osteogenesis, neurogenesis, and haematopoiesis [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Atta-ur-Rahman, Shazia Anjum , " Frontiers in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research ", Bentham Science Publishers (2017). (eurekaselect.com)
  • In response to ligation of monomorphic regions of MHC class II antigens with monoclonal antibody CR3/43, human leukocytes retrodifferentiate into a variety of heterogeneous stem cell types belonging to the mesoderm, ectoderm or endoderm lineage, depending on culture media and conditions. (eurekaselect.com)
  • During this process, leukocytes lose lineage-associated markers home and undergo homocytic aggregation, upregulate expression of stem cell antigens, and subsequently redifferentiate to give rise original tissue or, transdifferentiate into a different tissue altogether. (eurekaselect.com)
  • The ease by which various stem cell types can be generated from human peripheral blood has allowed the design of various kits to guarantee the specificity, sterility and efficacy of stem cells production for various clinical and research applications. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Our current efforts are focused on the development of stem cell-derived dopamine neurons, aimed at the development of transplantable neurons derived from human ES cells for clinical application. (lu.se)
  • Development of stem cell-derived dopamine neurons for neuronal replacement in Parkinson´s disease. (lu.se)
  • An important aspect of the work is the direct comparison of stem cell-derived cells with authentic midbrain dopamine neurons obtained from 6-9 week old aborted human fetuses. (lu.se)
  • One of the greatest controversies triggered tissue, a stem cell encoding for heart tissue by the rapid pace of evolution in biology, will eventually develop into heart tissue particularly in genomics and biotechnology, and so on. (who.int)
  • When the nucleus of a stem cell has been the technique of cloning. (who.int)
  • The con- is removed and replaced by a nucleus of cept of human cloning has long been in the another cell type, the stem cell will then imagination of many scientists, scholars and be reprogrammed to produce the product fiction writers [ 1 ]. (who.int)
  • Johan Jakobsson, a professor at Lund University and research group leader at MultiPark and Lund Stem Cell Center, explains, "LINE-1 retrotransposons are a rich source of genetic sequences that we suspect have shaped the evolution of the human brain, and we now have the tools to explore their role in brain development. (lu.se)
  • Opinions differ as to whether those breast cancers supplemented by 10% fetal bovine serum, penicillin, and streptomycin. (lu.se)
  • Asked by reporters what would happen if HHS determines contracts with fetal procurement companies did not meet those regulations, Collins said: "I guess we'll have to cross that bridge when we get to it. (breitbart.com)
  • As a result, NIH froze procurement of new tissue. (chicagotribune.com)
  • (1) IN GENERAL - The Secretary may conduct or support research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. (hhs.gov)
  • Absence of ILC2s leads to utero-placental abnormalities, including poor vascular remodelling, increased Il1b and decreased Il4, Il5 , and Il13 gene expression, and reduced alternative activation of dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages. (elifesciences.org)
  • Descendants of the fibroblast cells from these fetuses have been growing in labs ever since, as the WI-38 and MRC-5 cell lines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our mandate is to undertake and support research, not only basic, applied or epidemiological research but also operational research in the area of public health using a variety of tools, including those of modern biology. (who.int)
  • BT-474 cells, obtained expression of the receptor has important implications for their biology from American Type Culture Collection, were maintained in RPMI 1640 and therapy (1). (lu.se)
  • Neurodegeneration and neurodegenerative diseases (including the shared mechanisms of nerve cell death that contribute to many diseases), Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), NINDS tissue/cell resources, basic invertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ). (nih.gov)
  • The regional research centres concentrate on research pertaining to the diseases of their particular region, where there is often a lack of proper government infrastructure for health care delivery. (who.int)
  • The incidences of various esophageal diseases (e.g., congenital esophageal stenosis, tracheoesophageal fistula, esophageal atresia, esophageal cancer) are increasing, but esophageal tissue is difficult to be recovered because of its weak regenerative capability. (nature.com)
  • Casey noted from DO NO HARM's research of the medical literature from around the world that it "remains absolutely true that adult stem cells have benefited patients suffering from at least 72 diseases and conditions, where patient improvement is documented by peer-reviewed scientific publications. (christiannewswire.com)
  • Advancements in science have been able to alter adult tissue to study systemic immune diseases. (queerty.com)
  • Judge's research focuses on genetic diseases of the heart and skeletal muscle. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • The diseases and treatments that could come from giving up a human life are not worth it. (ipl.org)
  • While at the hospital she was unaware that the doctors there were experimenting on her taking cell samples from her body, to help find a resolution to multiple diseases. (ipl.org)
  • I started this line of research in the mid 1970ies, based on the idea that immature neurons can be used to replace lost neurons, restore brain circuitry, and promote functional recovery in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases. (lu.se)
  • The medical community has widely characterized the practice as vital to disease research since the fetal tissue can be used to mimic a variety of cells found in the human body. (queerty.com)
  • These organoids include a polarized epithelial layer that surrounds a functional lumen and contains cell types of the intestinal epithelium present in proportions and relative spatial arrangement that mimic what is observed in vivo. (stemcell.com)
  • The international research team, which also includes scientists and clinicians from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, created small defects using a needle in donated human fetal membrane tissue, to mimic damage caused during fetal surgery. (kowari.org)
  • The use of fetal tissue in vaccine development is the practice of researching, developing, and producing vaccines through growing viruses in cultured (laboratory-grown) cells that were originally derived from human fetal tissue. (wikipedia.org)
  • The vaccines do not contain any of the original fetal tissue or cells or cells derived from fetal materials. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Catholic Church has encouraged its members to use alternative vaccines, produced without human cell lines, if possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetal cell lines have been used in the manufacture of vaccines since 1930s. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the first medical applications of cell lines derived from fetal tissues was their use in the production of the first polio vaccines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vaccines that have been or are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue include: Adenovirus Chicken pox Ebola Polio Rabies Rubella Shingles Of these, the vaccines approved for use in the United States include some of those against rabies (Imovax), rubella, chicken pox, shingles, and adenovirus (as of January 2017). (wikipedia.org)
  • One historical cell line used in rubella vaccines was originally obtained from a fetus aborted due to infection with rubella. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several of the vaccines in use or advanced development for COVID-19 use the cell lines HEK-293 or PER.C6 for production. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nevertheless, the Pontifical Academy for Life, concluded in 2005 that parents may allow their children to receive vaccines made from fetal tissue if no alternative exists and there is a grave health risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • The NCBC, along with the Pontifical Academy for Life, have studied the moral issues surrounding vaccines and have determined that it is morally licit, and even morally responsible, for Catholics to use even those vaccines developed from aborted fetus cells. (ncregister.com)
  • Currently, the vaccine lines for rubella, chicken pox and hepatitis A are the remaining vaccines that have been developed from aborted fetal cells and for which there is no alternative available. (ncregister.com)
  • The document goes on to say that Catholics should express their opposition to vaccines developed from aborted cells and that there is an obligation to use alternative vaccines, should they exist. (ncregister.com)
  • Vaccines have been one of the chief public benefits of fetal tissue research. (wonkette.com)
  • But research using fetal tissue has led to lifesaving advances , including development of vaccines for rubella and rabies and drugs to treat HIV. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Scientists around the country denounced the decision, saying that fetal tissue was critically needed for research on HIV vaccines, treatments that harness the body's immune system to battle cancer, and other health threats, including some to fetuses themselves. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Between 1960 and 1990, numerous attempts were made to transplant fetal liver and thymus for various conditions. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • This gene is widely expressed in human tissues and has increased expression in actively dividing cells, such as those in testis, thymus, fetal liver, and carcinomas. (thermofisher.com)
  • Casey said that CLS, "as a founding member of DO NO HARM, The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics ( www.stemcellresearch.org ), supports the ethical research permitted by this bill using stem cells from adult tissues and umbilical cord blood that have been shown to have the versatility or to be convertible to the versatility once thought to only exist in embryonic stem cells. (christiannewswire.com)
  • At the Fetal Treatment Center, he provides prenatal counseling to women with complicated pregnancies. (ucsfhealth.org)
  • Uterine ILC2s are key immune cells during normal and complicated pregnancies. (elifesciences.org)
  • The most common and disabling form of the disorder, called myelomeningocele, causes the spinal cord to emerge through the back, often pulling brain tissue into the spinal column and causing cerebrospinal fluid to fill the interior of the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
  • both fetal and adult brain tissue samples. (lu.se)
  • In the first type of development, lung macrophages originate from precursor cells that are already present in the fetus' liver," says Tim Willinger, associate professor at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, who has led the study. (eurekalert.org)
  • After we are born, these precursor cells move from the liver to the lungs via the bloodstream. (eurekalert.org)
  • According to Fox News , a watchdog group focused on experiments using animals has filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) accusing Stanford University of failing to disclose taxpayer funding it used for disturbing and unethical research utilizing human tissue - including fingers from preborn babies as old as 20 weeks. (liveaction.org)
  • Research using fetal tissue from aborted babies is unethical and should not continue under his leadership," said Greg Schleppenbach, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, in a Dec. 18 statement. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • The National Institutes of Health on Friday decided to disband an independent advisory board that reviews applications for federal funding of projects outside the NIH that use fetal tissue from aborted babies in their research. (christianpost.com)
  • Tiny human babies are aborted by abortionists and then exploited to be farmed for their organs and tissue for use in experiments," Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said in a statement . (christianpost.com)
  • The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) claims that Stanford used fingers from aborted babies and other tissue to regenerate human cartilage on mice. (liveaction.org)
  • The notice adds, "NIH reminds the community of expectations to obtain informed consent from the donor for any NIH-funded research using human fetal tissue … and of continued obligations to conduct such research only in accord with any applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations, including prohibitions on the payment of valuable consideration for such tissue. (christianpost.com)
  • this research is funded by one specific donor, who is committed to this area of research. (salon.com)
  • Surgeons usually use ectopic conduit tissues including stomach and intestine, presumably inducing donor site morbidity and severe complications. (nature.com)
  • I want to conduct research on global health or health disparities. (nih.gov)
  • NIH intends to uphold high ethical, health, and safety standards in both the conduct of the research it funds and the expenditure of public funds by its recipients. (nih.gov)
  • Under the agreement, the recipient must perform a substantive role in the conduct of the planned research and not merely serve as a conduit of funds to another party or parties. (nih.gov)
  • Despite the importance of lung macrophages in the immune system, it has not been previously known how they develop in humans, since in-vivo studies in humans are difficult to conduct. (eurekalert.org)
  • PER.C6, a retinal cell line that was isolated from an aborted fetus in 1985 was used by Janssen in development of COVID-19 Vaccine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetal tissue also led to the development of the polio vaccine , and nobody wants to go back to the old-timey days of polio. (wonkette.com)
  • Prenatal surgery revolutionized spina bifida treatment by improving brain development, but it didn't benefit motor function as much as we hoped," said Farmer, chair of the UC Davis Department of Surgery and senior author of the study, published online in Stem Cells Translational Medicine . (sciencedaily.com)
  • Since the introduction of the mouse small intestinal organoid model in 2009, 1 there has been an avalanche of developments in this field, including development of culture conditions for human organoids derived from primary colonic tissue, 2 as well as from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). (stemcell.com)
  • EZH2, a methyltransferase catalyzing H3K27me3, has been abundantly studied in human and mouse embryonic development. (hindawi.com)
  • These results validated a different transcript in pigs and characterized its expression profile in fetal tissues of different gestation stages, which indicated that EZH2 played important roles during porcine embryonic development. (hindawi.com)
  • Alternative splicing of gene can generate multiple transcripts and proteins to regulate tissue and organ development [ 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • LAWRENCE GOLDSTEIN: So, for example, if you're trying to make a kidney from stem cells, you'd like to know that as the cells begin going down the kidney development path, that they're doing it normally. (npr.org)
  • Overexpression of FLI1 in erythroblasts causes inhibition of differentiation and ultimately the development of pre-T cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Chemical Research Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. (cdc.gov)
  • A participant asked about plans to scale the PBPK/PD model for human fetal development, particularly correlating the brain development in rats with humans. (cdc.gov)
  • These elements are suspected to have played a key role in shaping the development of the human brain. (lu.se)
  • Contrary to popular belief, stem cells are present in the human body throughout life and are found in many adult organs. (jcpa.org)
  • And he says because these cells are not fully developed, they can be useful for a lot of things like trying to develop replacement organs. (npr.org)
  • We observed as much as 6-fold increases in fibronectin synthesis by 24 h as previously reported for fibroblastic cells (Ignotz, R. A., and Massague, J. (1986) J. Biol. (eurekamag.com)
  • 1986. Carcinogenic effects of radiation on the human skin. (cdc.gov)
  • Previous in vivo imaging studies of such patients have demonstrated that human embryonic mesencephalic cells transplanted to the putamen remain alive and produce dopamine. (alzforum.org)
  • They were further able to demonstrate that the dopamine was not simply floating away from the axon terminals to affect other cells in a nonregulated way, but was binding to postsynaptic D[2] receptors. (alzforum.org)
  • In collaboration with Malin Parmar´s group at the Wallenberg Neurosciece Center we are studying the in vivo efficacy and performance of dopamine neuron precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. (lu.se)
  • On Wednesday, the administration also said it is not renewing an expiring contract with the University of California, San Francisco, that used fetal tissue to create a human-like immune system in mice for HIV research. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Both heterogeneity and tissue specialization of immune cells may hold the key to understanding the pathophysiology of some important pregnancy complications, such as miscarriage and fetal growth restriction (FGR), which is defined as the failure of the fetus to achieve its genetically determined growth potential. (elifesciences.org)
  • Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) lack antigen receptors but are equipped with receptors for cytokines, hormones, and paracrine signals enabling them to sense their environment and respond quickly by producing factors that influence parenchymal cells and other resident immune cells. (elifesciences.org)
  • Despite often comprising only a small proportion of tissue resident immune cells, ILCs are present in most tissues and have been shown to orchestrate inflammatory responses to viruses, intracellular bacteria and parasites. (elifesciences.org)
  • The hearing focused on the possibility of using different types of "humanized" mice - with human cells and immune systems - in biomedical research. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Thanks to immune cells in the lungs, so-called macrophages, we are protected from most infections at an early age. (eurekalert.org)
  • Research suggest, Beta-Carotene is a source of vitamin A that helps to maintain eyesight, skin, membranes, and immune function1. (herbalmagic.ca)
  • As the fertilized egg divides from one cell into two, physicians can separate these two cells and implant each one of them into a woman's uterus to generate two genetically identical children. (jcpa.org)
  • The placenta is tissue in the uterus that links the fetus and the mother's blood supply. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Using a monospecific antibody raised to the human placental fibronectin receptor complex, we found that TGF-.beta.1 stimulated fibronectin receptor synthesis up to 20-40-fold and increase mRNA levels encoding both the .alpha. (eurekamag.com)
  • The DNA in placental cells is usually identical to the DNA of the fetus. (medlineplus.gov)
  • At UCSF, today's action ends a 30-year partnership with the [National Institutes of Health] (NIH) to use specially designed models that could be developed only through the use of fetal tissue to find a cure for HIV," Hawgood said. (queerty.com)
  • WASHINGTON - An official at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said recent comments made by Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in defending human fetal tissue research were "deeply disturbing. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • CD116+ fetal precursors migrate to the perinatal lung and give rise to human alveolar macrophages", Elza Evren, Emma Ringqvist, Jean-Marc Doisne, Anna Thaller, Natalie Sleiers, Richard A. Flavell, James P. Di Santo, Tim Willinger. (eurekalert.org)
  • The hematopoietic retrodifferentiated stem cells have been shown to engraft an animal host in two proofs of principle clinical studies, demonstrating long-term engraftment and safety in acquired aplastic anaemia, while transient amelioration of beta thalassemia major was also observed. (eurekaselect.com)
  • The heated debate in our society over reproductive cloning, as well as therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells, has been fueled by misconceptions and hyperbole on both sides. (flfamily.org)
  • Reproductive cloning versus germ cell (egg, ovum). (who.int)
  • Intestinal organoids are three-dimensional (3D) in vitro tissue cultures that model the in vivo intestine. (stemcell.com)
  • Some of these techniques include novel tools for genetic manipulation, 4,5 approaches for in vitro disease modelling 6-9 and innovative co-culture system with autologous cell types 10,11 or bacteria, 12-14 as well as viral infection models. (stemcell.com)
  • Based upon the 48-72 h period required for a maximal fibroproliferative response to dermal injection of TGF-.beta.1, we exposed human fetal lung fibroblasts (IMR-90) to TGF-.beta.1 for periods up to 48 h in vitro. (eurekamag.com)
  • Binding of MHC class II antigens on leukocytes with the monoclonal antibody CR3/43 appears to emulate stress and injury in human tissue in vitro, similar to limb amputation in salamander. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Relating in vitro to in vivo exposures with physiologically-based tissue dosimetry and tissue response models. (cdc.gov)
  • The other step was a requirement that external applicants for NIH funds who wanted to use fetal tissue would have to go through a new ethics advisory board review process. (npr.org)
  • Lyssavirus infection was rabies or lyssavirus deaths in have been reported in humans determined by conducting virus neutralization assays on or other animals (7).This lack of data for other agents, how- bat serum samples. (cdc.gov)
  • Prohibiting valuable research that uses fetal tissue that is otherwise going to be discarded doesn't make any sense," said Dr. Lawrence Goldstein, a regenerative medicine specialist at the University of California, San Diego. (chicagotribune.com)
  • This paper provides insight and an overview of the QA/QC aspect during MyDerm ® manufacturing in a GMP-compliant facility in the Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Dr Tina Chowdhury, Senior Lecturer in Regenerative Medicine at Queen Mary, said: "We have always thought that small diameter wounds created in human fetal membranes rarely heal by themselves but here we show that the tissues have the potential to do this. (kowari.org)
  • The NIH director said the recent decision of its parent agency - the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - to audit federal purchases of aborted fetal tissue is being done simply "to assure the skeptics about the value of fetal tissue research [and] that this is being done according to all the appropriate regulations, guidelines, and oversight. (breitbart.com)
  • Dr. Marie Hilliard is a canon lawyer and the director of bioethics and public policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), a nonprofit research and educational institute committed to applying the moral teachings of the Catholic Church to ethical issues arising in health care and the life sciences. (ncregister.com)
  • There is strong evidence that scientific benefits can come from fetal tissue research, which can be done with an ethical framework," Collins, a physician-geneticist, said. (breitbart.com)
  • In order to encourage ethical research and protect the rights of all Americans as well as the citizens of foreign countries who use our products, the current method of labeling and informed consent must be amended. (consciencelaws.org)
  • The study, conducted in an animal model, was led by Diana Farmer, the fetal surgeon who helped pioneer in utero treatment for spina bifida -- a congenital birth defect that occurs when the spinal cord does not close properly, leading to lifelong cognitive, urological, musculoskeletal and motor disabilities. (sciencedaily.com)
  • For the current research, lambs with myelomeningocele received standard fetal surgery to return exposed tissue to the spinal canal. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This week, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati specifically asked Catholic school leaders at 113 schools to "immediately cease" any fundraising plans connected to the challenge, because the ALS Association funds at least one study using embryonic stem cells -- "in direct conflict with Catholic teaching. (salon.com)
  • Its main function is to formulate, coordinate and promote biomedical research in India through intramural as well as extramural research programmes. (who.int)
  • Immortalised cell lines are an important research tool offering a stable medium for experiments. (wikipedia.org)
  • The policy merely states that the federal government will not provide funds to big pharma to use fetal tissue in experiments. (queerty.com)
  • Do you plan to recruit human subjects or do experiments on human biological material? (etsmtl.ca)
  • Federal agencies shouldn't be wasting millions of our taxpayer dollars for grotesque, violent and unnecessary human fetal tissue experiments on animals," said Democrats for Life president Terrisa Bukovinac. (liveaction.org)
  • Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. (cdc.gov)
  • The esophageal tissue refers to the hollow organ between the oropharynx and the stomach, which allows food to pass to the stomach through peristalsis. (nature.com)
  • The robustness and efficacy of the retrodifferentiation process in generating unprecedented quantities of stem cells belonging to the three germ layers will enable organ and tissue reconstruction ex vivo, using bio-printing and various scaffold materials. (eurekaselect.com)
  • The human brain is an incredibly intricate organ that regulates everything from our motor skills to our memories. (lu.se)
  • Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and UCL have shown that fetal membranes are able to heal after injury in a new study published today in Scientific Reports . (kowari.org)
  • But fetal membranes can become damaged as a result of infection, bleeding, or after fetal surgery and even diagnostic tests during pregnancy, such as amniocentesis, which require doctors to make a hole with a needle in the fetal membrane sac. (kowari.org)
  • Currently there are no clinical approaches available to repair or improve healing in the fetal membranes, and until now it was unclear if small holes in the membranes were able to heal themselves. (kowari.org)
  • We found that Cx43 has different effects on cell populations found in the membranes and promotes transformation of AMCs into MFs, triggering them to move, repair and heal defects in the fetal membranes. (kowari.org)
  • The premature rupture of fetal membranes, known as preterm prelabour rupture of the membranes (PPROM), is a major cause of preterm birth accounting for around 40 per cent of early infant death. (kowari.org)
  • Therefore, the successful repair of fetal membranes could help reduce the risk of birth complications. (kowari.org)
  • Anna David, UCLH Consultant and Professor in Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director at the UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health and a co-author of the study, said: "Finding that the fetal membranes have this potential to heal is a huge step towards developing treatments for women with PPROM. (kowari.org)
  • And so comparison to early fetal kidney cells that are doing it normally tells you that you're on the right track or not. (npr.org)
  • GOLDSTEIN: It was an incredibly unpleasant experience because highly meritorious research projects that had already been through multiple layers of review, both scientifically and ethically, went to this board to be killed. (npr.org)