Most researchers agree that one day they will supplant embryonic stem cells in the lab.
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For the tissue-growing experiment, the researchers focused on the clump of cells containing embryonic stem cells.
We got off track in America because adult stem cells are confused with embryonic stem cells.
But those very viruses probably make these new embryonic stem cells useless as treatments.
Initially Grove was enthusiastic about the potential of embryonic stem cells as a treatment.
The world's first official trial using human embryonic stem cells in patients has been halted.
One challenge with embryonic stem cells, however, is preventing them from creating tumor cells.
Geron wants to inject embryonic stem cells direct into the spine of newly paralysed patients.
These are the same four genes that seemed to be very active in embryonic stem cells.
And activating calcineurin could potentially enable scientists to direct embryonic stem cells to become insulin-producing cells.
Geron scientists now manufacture seven different types of human cells from embryonic stem cells.
Without the NIH imprimatur, some young scientists are reluctant to stake their careers on embryonic stem cells.
Newfangled embryonic stem cells might work better, but the treatments are years away from widespread clinical use.
The Japanese technique circumvents the major ethical problem that has made research using embryonic stem cells controversial.
They've found a way to make human embryonic stem cells without using human eggs or human embryos.
Could, as Asashima hopes, embryonic stem cells be taken from a baby's placenta at birth and stored?
The technique relies on an adjustable "microvalve" to build up layers of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
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Geron is a company with extensive history in several leading-edge medical technologies, including human embryonic stem cells.
It is technically possible to obtain human embryonic stem cells from aborted foetuses and frozen IVF embryos.
Embryonic stem cells taken from in vitro fertilization clinics might have allowed researchers to develop new toxicology screens.
It would be imprudent, Thomson says, to abandon research in old-fashioned embryonic stem cells because of these discoveries.
Two years later, though, one researcher derived the first human embryonic stem cells by turning to private funding.
Embryonic stem cells are controversial because the embryos are destroyed when the stem cells are removed for research.
Embryonic stem cells still face big manufacturing and regulatory hurdles, and have yet to be tested in humans.
The gold standard embryonic stem cells still came from embryos themselves, including ones that were made through nuclear transfer.
Public awareness of the benefits of their use has been lost in the obsessive debate over embryonic stem cells.
Many scientists believe embryonic stem cells have remarkable potential for treating human diseases.
The research team, led by Robert Lanza, took human embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming RPE cells.
Even saying that two-dozen of them are embryonic stem cells seems overly optimistic to some scientists in the field.
BresaGen , an Australian firm, developed its own embryonic stem cells after running into problems with the Wisconsin cells.
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