Note that some people often confuse stem cell transplants with fetal stem cell therapy.
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Although President Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to a few existing stem cell colonies, he did not make such research illegal...
"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.
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.
Governor-elect JON CORZINE (Democrat, New Jersey): We can and we will invest in embryonic stem cell research and other forms of stem cell research that will save, restore and extend the quality of lives for our loved ones.
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.
Each has demonstrated leadership in a different aspect of stem cell therapeutics and each is progressing toward an approved stem cell therapy that could have a significant effect on medical practice.
On September 5, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on stem cell research, to determine more details about where the stem cell lines come from.
One of the recommendations made by the group was for journal editors to ask authors of stem cell research papers to submit data verifying the authenticity of the stem cell line, and an explanation of how they had complied with accepted standards of good cell culture practice.
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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.
In 2001, President George W. Bush banned all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, except on a handful of "pre-existing" stem cell lines.
The rationale for pursuing stem cell therapy in autism is based on encouraging results of unpublished data examining stem cell therapy in children with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect not only movement, but learning, behavior and cognition.
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, an ardent opponent of embryonic stem cell research, promised to filibuster the spending bill until Specter dropped the broader stem cell language.
Supporters of ongoing stem cell research -- which is controversial enough on its own because some existing stem cell lines were created from cells extracted from aborted fetuses -- say the field of study holds the promise of reversing or even curing many diseases.
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.
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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Over at Stem Cell Network, Paul Krzyzanowski wonders whether Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will be asked about their support for stem cell research during the presidential debates.
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The way to test whether a particular cell is a stem cell, therefore, is to grow it individually.
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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Palin, an evangelical Christian, opposes embryonic stem cell research because it involves the use of human embryos, but her running mate, GOP presidential nominee McCain, does support stem cell research involving embryos.
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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 other thing it does is it makes it extremely easy now to tailor a stem cell to an individual because all I have to do is get a few skin cells from you and then put in these magic factors, and suddenly I've got an embryonic stem cell line that's tailor made directly to you.
The Scripps Research Institute team had already boosted the number of cells created with two compounds initiating a naturally occurring process that moves the cell nearer to a stem-cell like state.
Another therapeutic possibility is giving a patient an IV of stem cells, which would come from a stem cell bank or a company.
While cloning stem cells is a technical breakthrough, there's already a method of deriving embryonic-like stem cells that doesn't require the use of embryos at all: induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, said Dr. George Daley, who is director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children's Hospital Boston and an international expert in stem cells.
Some researchers have testified before Congress that clones might provide a source of stem cells and compatible DNA for patients in need of stem cell treatment.
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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The other interesting aspect of the stem-cell link is that it was inspired by work outside the mainstream of the huge cancer-research industry: stem-cell research is now a huge field in its own right.
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.
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