• The stem cell controversy is the consideration of the ethics of research involving the development and use of human embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not all stem cell research involves human embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • The discovery of adult stem cells led scientists to develop an interest in the role of embryonic stem cells, and in separate studies in 1981 Gail Martin and Martin Evans derived pluripotent stem cells from the embryos of mice for the first time. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the use of the technique on human embryos led to more widespread controversy as criticism of the technique now began from the wider public who debated the moral ethics of questions concerning research involving human embryonic cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Then, in February 2004 he dropped a bombshell, claiming that his SNU research team had cloned the first human embryos and extracted stem cells from them. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Stem cells may be derived from adult tissues but the most potent are extracted from developing human embryos. (edu.au)
  • Advances in the biotechnology industry have increased scientists' understanding of the human genome and enhanced their ability to genetically modify eggs, sperm, and human embryos. (nyu.edu)
  • The potential use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) for cell replacement therapies is limited by ethical concerns and the technical hurdles associated with their isolation from human embryos. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There are enough for IVF, but way too few for the hundreds of thousands needed for the extensive trial and error process that will be required to prefect human SCNT, at least to develop the cloned embryo to the point where stem cells can be harvested and eventually, cloned embryos eventually gestated to birth. (cbc-network.org)
  • Thus, while we hear much about helping the infertile and trying to obtain stem cells from cloned embryos for use in medical treatments, I am convinced if we found non-cloning sources for both objectives, many biotechnologists would just shrug and keep on cloning. (cbc-network.org)
  • Using a cell-sorting machine that can separate out the marked cells, the team obtained reproductive cells from mouse ovaries and showed that the cells would generate viable egg cells that could be fertilized and produce embryos. (cbc-network.org)
  • The environmental group argued that Brüstle's work was "contrary to public order" because embryos were destroyed to gather the stem cells used. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The judgment effectively supports the Greenpeace view and imposes a ban on patenting work that uses embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it represents an immoral "industrial" use of human embryos. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Stem cells from embryos may provide the holy grail of medicine. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Stem cells from embryos are very special building blocks. (ox.ac.uk)
  • An excess of embryos is produced during in vitro fertilisation to prevent women having extra cycles of egg harvesting that pose risks to their health. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Instead of becoming "biowaste" these embryos could be used to produce embryonic stem cells. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Researchers have conducted a controversial study that involved paying dozens of young women at a hospital near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to get artificially inseminated so their embryos could be flushed out of their bodies and analyzed for research purposes. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • The researchers then analyzed the embryos, comparing them to embryos produced by 20 of the women who also underwent standard IVF. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • Embryos produced by both methods looked similar genetically, while those created using the lavage method looked slightly healthier physically, the researchers reported. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • In early 2021, Tsogbe received an experimental transplant of his own stem cells, which had been collected and edited in a laboratory using CRISPR gene editing, biomedicine's most cutting-edge tool. (pharmavoice.com)
  • In principle, scientists could produce a series of cell lines that would allow a close match for the majority of would-be cell recipients - just as transplant surgeons currently seek a close match for organ donors. (usf.edu)
  • Physicians could also extract DNA from the person who is going to receive the cellular transplant - creating a patient-specific treatment - though that would end up being far more expensive than drawing from a library of ready-made cells. (usf.edu)
  • In some cases, intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be needed, in combination with a bone marrow or stem cell transplant , to achieve a cure. (nhsinform.scot)
  • Identification of the major histocompatibility antigens of transplant DONORS and potential recipients, usually by serological tests. (lookformedical.com)
  • In my opinion there is no question but that the scientific information on stem cell research included in this science text book being used in Illinois schools incorporates some inaccurate scientific facts, and seems to be very partial to the use of human embryonic "stem cell" research. (lifeissues.net)
  • Experts from around the world are assessing the difficult issue of the extent to which embryonic stem cell research should be allowed to proceed, and to date there is little international consensus on this matter. (edu.au)
  • How, then, should embryonic stem cell research be regulated in Australia? (edu.au)
  • In this article we examine embryonic stem cell research and explore the current regulatory framework associated with this research in Australia, with particular reference to the Andrews Report . (edu.au)
  • In effect, it shuts down embryonic stem cell research by the back door. (ox.ac.uk)
  • HumanPass Wednesday confirmed fingerprinting traces of Snuppy, Hwang's canine clone, matched those of its somatic cell donor, an Afghan hound named Tai, while they demonstrated disparate mitochondrial genotypes. (blogspot.com)
  • Somatic-cell nuclear transfer, the technique by which Dolly was created, was first used 40 years ago in research with tadpoles and frogs. (who.int)
  • The nucleus of an adult somatic cell (such as a skin cell) is removed and transferred to an enucleated egg, which is then stimulated with electric current or chemicals to activate cell division. (who.int)
  • if it implants and the pregnancy goes to term, the resulting individual will carry the same nuclear genetic material as the donor of the adult somatic cell. (who.int)
  • Scientists were initially interested in somatic-cell nuclear transfer as a means of determining whether genes remain functional even after most of them have been switched off as the cells in a developing organism assume their specialized functions as blood cells, muscle cells, and so forth. (who.int)
  • Although exciting results have been achieved by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell fusion, and culture-induced reprogramming [ 1 ], these procedures are technically demanding and inefficient and therefore unlikely to become a common approach for producing patient-specific pluripotent cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here's what I mean: Each try at somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning to manufacture a human being (or, member of the species Homo sapiens , if you prefer) requires a human egg. (cbc-network.org)
  • Thus, the clone would be genetically identical to the nucleus donor only if the egg came from the same donor or from her maternal line. (who.int)
  • Dolly, the first mammal to be genetically cloned from adult cells, poses for the camera in 1997 at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. (usf.edu)
  • The Supreme Court's decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics , Inc. [2] could be interpreted as paving the way for patenting genetically altered genome or gamete cells. (nyu.edu)
  • If biotech scientists have the ability to manipulate the genes of an embryo or gamete cell for non-therapeutic purposes, it could be argued that these genetically modified cells are in fact patentable "inventions," given that the material was not, in that particular sequence, naturally occurring. (nyu.edu)
  • Here, we summarize current reprogramming methodologies with a focus on the production of transgene-free or genetically unmanipulated iPSCs and highlight important technical details that ultimately may influence the biological properties of pluripotent stem cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here we extend those findings to humans using only genetically unmodified human naive embryonic stem cells (cultured in human enhanced naive stem cell medium conditions) 4 . (nature.com)
  • For many decades, stem cells have played an important role in medical research, beginning in 1868 when Ernst Haeckel first used the phrase to describe the fertilized egg which eventually gestates into an organism. (wikipedia.org)
  • XI - embryonic stem cells: embryonic cells that are capable of modifying the cells of any organism tissue. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • … "embryo" means a human organism during the first 56 days of its development following fertilization or creation, excluding any time during which its development has been suspended, and includes any cell derived from such an organism that is used for the purpose of creating a human being. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • A light micrograph of a primitive human embryo, composed of four cells, following the initial mitotic divisions that ultimately transform a single-cell organism into one composed of millions of cells. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • An induced state of non-reactivity to grafted tissue from a donor organism that would ordinarily trigger a cell-mediated or humoral immune response. (lookformedical.com)
  • In addition, as the genetic identity of the donor egg from which the ESCs are derived most likely will differ from that of potential recipients, patients who receive ESC-derived cells or tissues may face the same complications that result from organ transplantation (for example, immunorejection, graft-versus-host disease, and need for immunosuppression). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 1998, James Thomson and Jeffrey Jones derived the first human embryonic stem cells, with even greater potential for drug discovery and therapeutic transplantation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ideally, iPSC-based therapies in the future will rely on the isolation of skin fibroblasts or keratinocytes, their reprogramming into iPSCs, and the correction of the genetic defect followed by differentiation into the desired cell type and transplantation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Most importantly, embryonic stem cells may allow transplantation to be used to treat common diseases like heart attack, Alzheimer's Disease, diabetes, Parkinson's Disease and stroke. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Yet further treatments using stem cells could potentially be developed due to their ability to repair extensive tissue damage. (wikipedia.org)
  • Adult stem cells are generally limited to differentiating into different cell types of their tissue of origin. (wikipedia.org)
  • It may be possible to engineer tissue from embryonic stem cells so doctors don't need to use these drugs. (ox.ac.uk)
  • It may be possible in the future to embryonic stem cells to produce brain tissue to replace the damaged brain tissue. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Cells grown in vitro from neoplastic tissue. (lookformedical.com)
  • Any of a group of malignant tumors of lymphoid tissue that differ from HODGKIN DISEASE, being more heterogeneous with respect to malignant cell lineage, clinical course, prognosis, and therapy. (lookformedical.com)
  • Proliferation Phase- Rebuilding of the tissue begins with the recruitment of varied cell types. (zennutrients.com)
  • This mouse egg (top) is being injected with genetic material from an adult cell to ultimately create an embryo - and, eventually, embryonic stem cells. (usf.edu)
  • They repeated the process - this time starting with the genetic material extracted from the skin cells of a much older man. (usf.edu)
  • In 1973, Ronald Ericsson developed the Ericsson method, which is a technique used to separate human male sperm cells by their genetic material. (asu.edu)
  • Hwang Woo-suk became the first researcher in the world to clone a dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy, in 2005. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Hwang's stem cells should have been found to be nuclear transferred embryonic stem cells from patients' skin cells. (blogspot.com)
  • However, an animal created through this technique would not be a precise genetic copy of the source of its nuclear DNA because each clone derives a small amount of its DNA from the mitochondria of the egg (which lie outside the nucleus) rather than from the donor of cell nucleus. (who.int)
  • Eighteen years ago, scientists in Scotland took the nuclear DNA from the cell of an adult sheep and put it into another sheep's egg cell that had been emptied of its own nucleus. (usf.edu)
  • Writing in the journal Cell Stem Cell , they say they started with nuclear DNA extracted from the skin cells of a middle-age man and injected it into human eggs donated by four women. (usf.edu)
  • As with Dolly, the women's nuclear DNA had been removed from these eggs before the man's DNA was injected. (usf.edu)
  • Malignant lymphoma composed of large B lymphoid cells whose nuclear size can exceed normal macrophage nuclei, or more than twice the size of a normal lymphocyte. (lookformedical.com)
  • This is the first time researchers have grown living bone that precisely replicates the original anatomical structure, using autologous stem cells derived from a small sample of the recipient's fat. (vetscite.org)
  • Dec. 29, 2005 -- South Korean laboratories used by scientist Hwang Woo Suk no longer have any stem cells created from patients' tissues, the result of the researcher's landmark May 2005 paper, the Seoul National University said. (blogspot.com)
  • They can be used to replace dead or damaged cells, tissues or organs. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This mode of cell death serves as a balance to mitosis in regulating the size of animal tissues and in mediating pathologic processes associated with tumor growth. (lookformedical.com)
  • Much of this process relies on the morphogenesis of the extra-embryonic tissues and the effect this has on the organization of embryonic cells. (nature.com)
  • The blockages can cause acute agony - crises of pain that recur again and again in people with severe sickle cell disease. (pharmavoice.com)
  • It is true that the company was not attempting to patent actual sperm or egg cells, but merely facilitate a "preview" of unborn children. (nyu.edu)
  • The advance, if confirmed, might provide a new source of eggs for treating infertility, though scientists say it is far too early to tell if the work holds such promise…The new research, by a team led by the biologist Jonathan L. Tilly, depends on a special protein found to mark the surface of reproductive cells like eggs and sperm. (cbc-network.org)
  • The egg cells, when injected into mice, generated follicles, the ovarian structure in which eggs are formed, as well as mature eggs, some of which had a single set of chromosomes, a signature of eggs and sperm. (cbc-network.org)
  • Ericsson, a physician and reproduction researcher, developed the method while conducting research on sperm isolation in Berlin, Germany, in the early 1970s. (asu.edu)
  • He found that the sperm cells that carry male-producing Y chromosomes move through liquid faster than the cells that carry female-producing X chromosomes. (asu.edu)
  • But instead of having eggs extracted via a needle from their ovaries and fertilized in the lab - a standard procedure during IVF - the women in the study were inseminated by sperm. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • The stem cells in storage at Hwang's laboratories at the university were all derived from the fertility clinic MizMedi's blastocysts, which were generated by in vitro fertilization . (blogspot.com)
  • On the basis of the unlimited capacity to be propagated in vitro , iPSCs are good targets for genetic manipulation by gene therapy or gene correction by homologous recombination. (biomedcentral.com)
  • After an investigative panel at SNU found last week that Hwang's team fabricated data for his purported exploit of making 11 tailor-made stem cells, his other works such as Snuppy were all cast under suspicion. (blogspot.com)
  • These immature cells are known as blast cells. (nhsinform.scot)
  • As the number of immature cells increases, the amount of healthy red blood cells and platelets decrease, and it's this fall that causes many of the symptoms of leukaemia . (nhsinform.scot)
  • B-cell antigens are expressed on the immature cells that make up the tumor in virtually all cases of Burkitt lymphoma. (lookformedical.com)
  • Great levels of success and potential have been realized from research using adult stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Destruction of a human embryo is required in order to research new embryonic cell lines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Political leaders debate how to regulate and fund research studies that involve the techniques used to remove the embryo cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, they can be used independently to research how, for example, diseases attack cells. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The neo-conservative administration of George W Bush ― an administration with a strongly Christian support base to appease ― banned stem cell research. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Called exa-cel, the treatment is a kind of genetic workaround for sickle cell, built on decades of research into the disease's roots. (pharmavoice.com)
  • Snuppy was cast under suspicion following revelations that the Korean scientist had fabricated his stem cell research. (blogspot.com)
  • It brightens the prospects that his team retains the source technologies for stem cell research," Park said. (blogspot.com)
  • ``The patient-matching stem cells no longer exist,'' Roe Jung Hye, dean of research of affairs at the university, said in an e-mailed statement. (blogspot.com)
  • The university has been conducting a probe on Hwang and his research since Dec. 16, including genetic tests on stem cells being stored at the laboratories. (blogspot.com)
  • So when I was recently contacted by an earnest and amiable member of a local school board who was concerned about the questionable manner in which the issue of "stem cell" research - both human embryonic and adult - was presented to the high school students in his district in a currently-used science textbook, I agreed to evaluate that section in the text for him. (lifeissues.net)
  • My edited analysis of the section on "stem cell research" in this science textbook is copied below. (lifeissues.net)
  • Embryonic stem cell technology is still at a preliminary research stage and announcements about its potential may be premature. (edu.au)
  • This issue was considered by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in its report entitled Human Cloning: Scientific, Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research (hereafter the Andrews Report , after the Chair of the Committee, Mr Kevin Andrews, MP) released in September 2001. (edu.au)
  • On 20 August 2007, in Frazer v. Schlegel, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided that researchers Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou owned the rights to the vaccine patent for Human Papillomavirus, or HPV, instead of a research team led by Richard Schlegel. (asu.edu)
  • Why is ES cell research so important? (ox.ac.uk)
  • Conservative Europeans have not been able to ban ES cell research but this is their attempt to close it down by the back door by claiming it is industrialization of human life. (ox.ac.uk)
  • So ideally scientists would like to be able to extract DNA from the cells of older people - not just cells from infants - to create therapies for adult diseases. (usf.edu)
  • Light therapy, also called phototherapy, exposes infants with jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes, to artificial or natural light to break down the buildup of bilirubin pigment in the blood. (asu.edu)
  • Bilirubin is an orange to red pigment produced when red blood cells break down, which causes infants to turn into a yellowish color. (asu.edu)
  • Physician researchers Edgar Rey Sanabria and Héctor Martínez-Gómez developed the Kangaroo Mother Program in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1979, as an alternative to conventional incubator treatment for low birth weight infants. (asu.edu)
  • AML occurs when specialised cells called stem cells, which are found in the bone marrow (a spongy material inside the bones), produce too many immature white blood cells. (nhsinform.scot)
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is caused by a DNA mutation in the stem cells in your bone marrow that produce red blood cells, platelets and infection-fighting white blood cells. (nhsinform.scot)
  • Our previous studies showed that cortical bone stem cells (CBSCs) possess reparative effects after ICI. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ideally he would like to screen millions of adults and choose just a hundred or so whose genes would make them good DNA donors. (usf.edu)
  • What we show for the first time is that you can actually take skin cells, from a middle-aged 35-year-old male, but also from an elderly, 75-year-old male" and use the DNA from those cells in this cloning process, Lanza says. (usf.edu)
  • But he says this does mean we could be getting closer to being able to go beyond cloned cell lines to cloning an entire human being. (usf.edu)
  • The human cloning agenda has stalled because of what I call the "egg dearth. (cbc-network.org)
  • People have to be sensitive to the particular antibodies used in the therapy, and not everyone will be. (medicationjunction.com)
  • Caskey pointed to another question for future studies: Can antibody therapies, over time, spur the immune system to produce its own HIV-fighting antibodies, possibly reducing the need for treatment? (medicationjunction.com)
  • or actively by prior immunization of the recipient with graft antigens which evoke specific antibodies and form antigen-antibody complexes which bind to the antigen receptor sites of the T-cells and block their cytotoxic activity. (lookformedical.com)
  • Religious groups believe that the raw material from which stem cells are sourced are themselves forms of human life, and by creating little chunks of humans in Petri dishes, scientists are, critics believe, playing God. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • In the 18 years since researchers cloned a sheep, scientists have found another way to produce cloned human cell lines. (usf.edu)
  • A group of heterogeneous lymphoid tumors generally expressing one or more B-cell antigens or representing malignant transformations of B-lymphocytes. (lookformedical.com)
  • Donor and recipient pairs should be of identical ABO blood group, and in addition should be matched as closely as possible for HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS in order to minimize the likelihood of allograft rejection. (lookformedical.com)
  • Treatments that have been proposed include treatment for physical trauma, degenerative conditions, and genetic diseases (in combination with gene therapy). (wikipedia.org)
  • In early 2009, the FDA approved the first human clinical trials using embryonic stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Much of the debate surrounding human embryonic stem cells, therefore, concern ethical and legal quandaries around the destruction of an embryo. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hwang said his team had created a single cell line from 242 human eggs. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The process has been difficult to do with human cells. (usf.edu)
  • Dolly's birth set off a huge outpouring of ethical concern - along with hope that the same techniques, applied to human cells, could be used to treat myriad diseases. (usf.edu)
  • It's proved very difficult to do that same sort of DNA transfer into a human egg. (usf.edu)
  • They injected it into 77 human egg cells, and from all those attempts, managed to create two viable cells that contained DNA from one or the other man. (usf.edu)
  • They look like the cells in a human embryo - in fact, they're called embryonic stem cells. (usf.edu)
  • And with a bit of coaxing, these cells could, theoretically, be prodded to turn into any sort of human cell - nerve, heart, liver and pancreas, for example. (usf.edu)
  • The unique properties of human stem cells have aroused considerable optimism about their potential as new pathways for alleviating human suffering caused by disease and injury. (edu.au)
  • But human eggs outside the body are few and far between. (cbc-network.org)
  • Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital say they have extracted stem cells from human ovaries and made them generate egg cells. (cbc-network.org)
  • Procedures that involve human embryonic stem cells cannot be patented, the European Court of Justice recently declar ed. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Cells are the "lego" blocks that make up the human body. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The women received hormone injections to stimulate their ovaries to produce eggs, which is a standard way to obtain donor eggs that are to be used for women experiencing infertility problems. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • The resulting egg was implanted in the womb of a third sheep, and the result was Dolly, the first clone of a mammal. (usf.edu)
  • The fact that the DNA of a fully differentiated (adult) cell could be stimulated to revert to a condition comparable to that of a newly fertilized egg and to repeat the process of embryonic development demonstrates that all the genes in differentiated cells retain their functional capacity, although only a few are active. (who.int)
  • He'd like to see a library of cells created with those carefully chosen genes. (usf.edu)
  • The majority of mantle-cell lymphomas are associated with a t(11;14) translocation resulting in overexpression of the CYCLIN D1 gene (GENES, BCL-1). (lookformedical.com)
  • The ethical and legal controversies that were aroused in the ART debates during the 1980s have been re-ignited with the development of stem cell technology. (edu.au)
  • As with the mice, the team was able to retrieve reproductive cells that produced immature egg cells when grown in the laboratory. (cbc-network.org)
  • Stem cell technology is the latest development in this controversial branch of science. (edu.au)
  • This amino acid is found in high-protein foods including meat, fish, eggs, dairy and legumes. (supplemented.co.uk)
  • But in a slice of the population, these cells are misshapen, contorted by a genetic mutation into sharp-edged scythes that snag in blood vessels. (pharmavoice.com)
  • The mutation that causes sickle cell is still in his DNA, even if treatment with exa-cel has muted its most obvious and damaging consequences. (pharmavoice.com)
  • The mutation causes the stem cells to produce many more white blood cells that are needed. (nhsinform.scot)
  • In sexual reproduction, clones are created when a fertilized egg splits to produce identical (monozygous) twins with identical genomes. (who.int)
  • The researchers randomly treated 24 male mice trapped at five sites in Huntingdon County, Pa. (vetscite.org)
  • The trapping sites were innovatively positioned to represent a large grid and mice were electronically tagged so researchers could keep precise track of where the animals were being recaptured. (vetscite.org)
  • Researchers also found that all mice at the separate untreated sites made significantly less contacts with other mice during the same time that the testosterone treatment significantly increased contacts. (vetscite.org)
  • One of the mechanisms by which CELL DEATH occurs (compare with NECROSIS and AUTOPHAGOCYTOSIS). (lookformedical.com)
  • Malnutrition occurs quickly in obese patients as the metabolic needs of fat cells are different and their ability to mobilize nutrients is diminished. (zennutrients.com)
  • It also means that finally getting the sheep technology to work with cells from adult humans may not turn out to be a turning point for this technology, after all. (usf.edu)
  • Stem cell technology in humans derives from earlier and complementary work in animal studies. (edu.au)
  • They are short-lived cells resembling bursa-derived lymphocytes of birds in their production of immunoglobulin upon appropriate stimulation. (lookformedical.com)
  • A form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma having a usually diffuse pattern with both small and medium lymphocytes and small cleaved cells. (lookformedical.com)
  • A classification of B-lymphocytes based on structurally or functionally different populations of cells. (lookformedical.com)
  • Factors that can alter immune response, including significantly altered cytokine levels in plasma and polarization of macrophages and T cells towards a pro-reparative phenotype in the myocardium post-MI is a valid strategy for reducing infarct size and damage after myocardial injury. (bvsalud.org)
  • These effects were linked to the alteration of immune response, with significantly altered cytokine levels in plasma, and polarization of macrophages and T cells towards a pro-reparative phenotype in the myocardium post-MI. (bvsalud.org)
  • Inflammatory Phase- Immune cells migrate to the wound to clear the wound of debris and bacterial infection. (zennutrients.com)
  • To get a measure of the pigs' personalities, the researchers conducted two tests: a social isolation test and a novel object test. (vetscite.org)
  • The fall from grace of stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk would be as spectacular as his meteoric ascent. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The decision from the European court of justice is a legal clarification for a court case brought by Greenpeace against a German scientist, Oliver Brüstle , who patented a way to turn stem cells into healthy brain cells. (ox.ac.uk)
  • that given the right morphogenesis or transcription factor, a cell could be induced to become anything at any point. (lifeissues.net)
  • Mouse naive embryonic stem cells have recently been shown to give rise to embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells capable of self-assembling into post-gastrulation structured stem-cell-based embryo models with spatially organized morphogenesis (called SEMs) 3 . (nature.com)
  • Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology , says that was an important step, but not ideal for medical purposes. (usf.edu)
  • Each of those two cells is able to divide indefinitely, "so from a small vial of those cells we could grow up as many cells as we would ever want," Lanza says. (usf.edu)
  • If they can be established as a TUMOR CELL LINE, they can be propagated in cell culture indefinitely. (lookformedical.com)
  • It would launch a new era of treatment for sickle cell, which most commonly affects people of African ancestry and was for decades overlooked by drugmakers . (pharmavoice.com)
  • Findings from the study, carried out by researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and Queens University Belfast, are published in the Royal Society journal Open Science. (vetscite.org)
  • If healthy stem cells can be cloned, they can ― potentially ― be used to treat a wide range of conditions using replacement therapy. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • A group of steroids found in female mouse urine goes straight to the male mouse's head, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. (vetscite.org)
  • They found the compounds activate nerve cells in the male mouse's nose with unprecedented effectiveness. (vetscite.org)
  • Researchers found that among 11 HIV patients given the antibody combo, nine maintained complete suppression of the virus after going off their medication regimen. (medicationjunction.com)
  • The hope, experts said, is that the therapy - or others like it - could one day free some patients from taking daily pills to control the AIDS -causing virus. (medicationjunction.com)
  • With antibody therapy, the vision is to give patients an infusion every three to six months, explained Caskey, an associate professor at Rockefeller University in New York City. (medicationjunction.com)
  • In one study, the researchers treated 11 patients whose HIV was under control with standard medications. (medicationjunction.com)
  • In a second study, the researchers gave the antibody therapy to four patients who had detectable HIV in their blood. (medicationjunction.com)
  • These patients have an inexplicable failure to respond adequately to FSH therapy during attempts at superovulation. (medscape.com)
  • In this clinical situation, patients also fail to respond adequately to FSH therapy during attempts at superovulation. (medscape.com)
  • Preprophase: The first cell cycle of mitosis - In cell biology, mitosis is part of the cell cycle. (bag2thefuture.org)
  • However, some evidence suggests that adult stem cell plasticity may exist, increasing the number of cell types a given adult stem cell can become. (wikipedia.org)
  • Kelly suggests that the One Machine will pass through four developmental levels, en route from its beginnings as a 'plain superorganism' into something approaching consciousness. (watchmanbiblestudy.com)