The most successful methods for improving the banana through genetic engineering rely on the availability of embryonic cell suspensions.
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When public funding was not available for embryonic cell research, billionaires and other private sources stepped forward to fund it.
This morning, Geron of Menlo Park, for years a leading company in embryonic stem cell research, announced that the first patient had been dosed in a study of its embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury.
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Opponents of embryonic stem cell research, which involves destroying the donated embryos from which cell lines are derived, have long argued that the discovery of iPS cells in 2006 (for which Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this past year) obviates the need for embryonic stem cell research.
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, to the extent permitted by law.
At the clinic, run by Dr. Geeta Shroff, a former obstetrician and pediatrician who admits she is self taught in the practice of stem cell medicine, Cash received embryonic stem cell injections for a disorder that resembles Down syndrome and is caused by a missing part of his X chromosome.
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Bush's veto of the stem cell bill on Wednesday "may slow down embryonic stem cell research" adds Patel, but he's optimistic that research will continue nonetheless with private funding.
These cells were also created using mouse cells, starting with mouse skin cells, and the comparison between what you get from a mouse cell that's transformed this way and an embryonic stem cell, they look to be very similar.
Polls show Americans who consider themselves conservatives are split right down the middle on whether they support stem cell research, and some pro-choice Americans actually oppose embryonic stem cell research.
Other proponents of stem cell research reject using clones for such purposes, but the potential has led opponents of embryonic stem cell research to warn that federal funding could lead to wider cloning experimentation.
"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.
Embryonic stem cell research has repeatedly raised ethical concerns and human eggs are a scarce resource.
At least a plurality of each group favors the use of embryonic stem cell research.
Tuesday's debate could be a dress rehearsal for the coming debate over embryonic stem cell research.
Biden is against public funding for abortions but would increase federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"What we're going to be doing is trying to make the embryonic stem cell irrelevant, " says Thomas St.
The bigger question is what happens to all the NIH-funded embryonic stem cell research that is just getting started.
As for the future, all voters who are 18-29 years old favor embryonic stem cell research 71% to 17%.
Dr. RICHARD HYNES (co-Chair, Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, National Academy of Sciences): Good morning.
We're going to talk some more this morning about the ethical issues raised by human embryonic stem cell research.
But supporters of embryonic stem cell research said the issue is more complex.
Embryonic stem cell research, he argued, is the right, moral thing to do because it aims to relieve "human suffering".
The Tennessee Republican issued 10 principles he said must go hand-in-hand with any taxpayer funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"We've never changed our point of view, which is that embryonic stem cell treatments cannot ever be justified, " she said.
So the controversy over government funding of embryonic stem cell research quickly reaches into the unregulated domain of reproductive medicine.
Conservative groups had called upon Bush to stick to campaign promises to reject any federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
A. Non-embryonic stem cell lines involve cells that are more differentiated and thus less capable of being programmed into various cell lines.
For example, the Republican Party of Iowa is keenly interested in social issues such as abortion, marriage and embryonic stem cell research.
The embryonic stem cell research has also proved difficult, elusive for him.
But Josephine Quintavalle, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (Core), which opposes embryonic stem cell therapies, dismissed the research as "highly speculative".
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