We want to create the road map of the future of adult stem cell research.
There are so many other adult stem cell alternatives available to find cures for diseases.
Three papers from the last year deal specifically with unexpected and adverse results of adult stem cell transplants.
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Her enthusiasm for the promise of adult stem cell therapies and induced pluripotent stem cells (adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells) was evident.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates which adult stem cell techniques are allowed to go into clinical trials and sets the requirements for more routine use.
One of the virtues of adult stem cell research, so the story goes, is that it does not suffer either the ethical concerns or scientific problems involved in embryonic stem cell research.
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"Any adult stem cell scientist is disadvantaged, and that's because there is a deliberate focus to fund embryonic stem cell research and a focus away from adult stem cell research, " Dr. Deisher said.
Three House GOP leaders and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott are pressuring Bush by urging him to block federal funding of embryonic research, saying the White House should instead focus on adult stem cell studies.
Many believe the emphasis should be placed on adult stem-cell research, which poses fewer ethical questions.
This idea of self-treatment is one of the reasons adult stem-cell science is so fashionable.
Osiris Therapeutics is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
But now Pfizer is betting that a radical new adult stem-cell treatment may be able to stave off diabetes-induced retina damage, a leading cause of blindness.
In mice, for instance, GFP has enabled adult stem-cell research.
Osiris Therapeutics (nasdaq: OSIR - news - people ) is testing in new diabetics an adult stem-cell therapy that it hopes will have fewer side effects than anti-CD3 drugs.
More and more clinics around the country are offering stem cell transplants using adult stem cells to treat an ever growing list of ailments.
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Adult stem cells have great potential as cell sources for regenerative medicine.
Defenders of embryonic stem cell work say that it is important even in understand adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble the embryonic cells but can be created without destroying embryos.
Doerflinger said his group is in favor of federal funding of research on non-embryonic stem cell lines, using adult tissue, or tissue from fetuses which died of natural causes.
Lott, who had been circumspect on the issue previously, said he has concluded that he can support only those stem-cell studies that use adult tissue.
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There are some cells on the margin of adult retinas that have been identified as having stem cell-like properties, which the team says could be suitable.
But Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the public interest group Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) described the use of human embryos for therapeutic treatment as "quite horrifying, " and said that stem cell research should focus on the use of adult stem cells.
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
Scientists working on embryos say that stem cell research is in its infancy and not enough is known about the potential of either adult or embryonic stem cells to abandon one approach in favour of the other.
Embryonic stem cells are advantageous in research because they can be grown more easily than adult stem cells in a culture, and are pluripotent, meaning they can develop into any of the various cell types of the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Let's be clear: this is not about embryonic stem cell research, which, despite the hype may deliver something given time, although the alternatives of adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells look set to deliver results much quicker.
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