Joe Palca's report mentioned that the stem cell research in South Korea was found to be fraudulent...
Again, however, the stem cell research has not been used to cure any diseases at this time.
They also funded the stem cell research program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
The usefulness of this technology will depend on the stem cell research of companies like Geron gern (nasdaq: gern - news - people), which would allow the creation of new organ tissues from the patients' own existing cells.
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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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The embryonic stem cell research has also proved difficult, elusive for him.
But for others, the promise of stem cell research is outweighed by the moral cost of the source of the cells.
One of the great promises of stem cell research is the potential to end the need for organ transplants by actually growing new organs from the DNA of the host.
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.
In the U.S. stem cell research has been restricted to private institutions since the Bush administration banned federally funded research in 2001.
Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, chose the last day before research--recess, rather, to announce that he differed from the president on embryonic stem cell research.
For those who object to the destruction of embryos for stem cell research, this represents an unacceptable end run around the intent of the original research ban.
But it would require conservative intellectuals to dissociate themselves from their brethren who deny evolution, global warming and the value of stem-cell research, while promoting homophobia and the rest of the dreary litany of popular but ludicrous conservative causes.
The breakthroughs in stem cell research announced Tuesday are a boon for drug researchers.
Dr Michael West is another leading figure in the field of stem cell research.
Public opinion may be mixed about the ethics of stem cell research, but medical development is plowing full-speed ahead.
Reagan painted a picture where he envisioned a Parkinson's disease patient being cured as the result of stem cell research.
Prof Wilmut now heads the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, which brings together experts from the Institute for Stem Cell Research and scientists and clinicians from Edinburgh University's medical school.
On Thursday a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK, which hopes to join South Korea in the forefront of stem cell research, also said they had successfully cloned an human embryo.
Thinking about whether the research should go forward very much depends on one's view of the status of human embryos and how that ought to be weighed against the promise of stem cell research.
Crichton is one of those increasingly rare individuals who is willing to go against raging conventional wisdom, including the hype surrounding stem cell research, which he persuasively confronts in this book, and that surrounding global warming, which he dealt with brilliantly in State of Fear.
The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific inquiry, to expand NIH support for the exploration of human stem cell research, and in so doing to enhance the contribution of America's scientists to important new discoveries and new therapies for the benefit of humankind.
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.
As simply one example of many, the Broad Foundation invests in advancing innovative scientific and medical research in the areas of human genomics, stem cell research and inflammatory bowel disease.
Twenty-one of the 60 stem cell lines authorized for research under the Bush policy have proven useful to researchers.
" Anti-ban Billionaires" (Sept. 4) seems to lament the fact that the government prevents federal funding of embryonic stem cell research when the potential medical benefits of such therapy are so great.
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.
To ban such use would have the effect of exporting stem cell research overseas to countries where it is not illegal -- in fact, the United Kingdom has already given approval to such research.
While conceding that "the full promise of stem cell research remains unknown" and "should not be overstated, " Obama nevertheless expressed hope that the order will help spur faster progress in the search for cures to afflictions such as Parkinson's disease, cancer and spinal cord injuries.
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