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Scientists have rescued visual function in laboratory rats with eye disease by using cells similar to stem cells. The research shows the potential for stem cell-based therapies to treat age-related macular degeneration in humans.
Stem cells taken from days-old human embryos can be kept alive indefinitely in solution, and have the ability to turn into about 200 cell types in the body. Use of these so-called stem lines is opposed by some people because extracting them destroys the embryos.
The U.S. NIH has approved the first 13 human embryonic stem cell lines made eligible for research by the Obama administration's new ethical guidelines.
WASHINGTON -- Thirteen human embryonic stem-cell lines have been approved for use in federally funded research and approval of many more lines is expected to follow, the head of the National Institutes of Health announced Dec. 2.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand government support for one of the most promising but also most contentious fields of biomedical research.
WASHINGTON — Scientists can start using taxpayer money to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells, and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially lifesaving field.
The number of human embryonic stem-cell lines eligible to be used in government-funded research just went up by 13.
Scientists received a green light Wednesday to apply for use of 13 human embryonic stem-cell lines from an approved list developed by the National Institutes of Health, the government's prime medical research agency. In making the announcement, Dr. Francis S. Collins, NIH director, said the decision was in accord with guidelines adopted in July and more lines, called batches, are likely to be ...
NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., recently announced the approval of the first 13 human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines for use in NIH-funded research under the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research adopted in July 2009.
WASHINGTON - Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving field. President Ba
Scientists can start using taxpayer money to study stem-cell lines that had been put off-limits on moral grounds by the Bush administration.
Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells, and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon to open a new era for the potentially lifesaving field. President Obama lifted eight years of restrictions on the master cells last spring. But $21 million-and-counting worth of new projects were on hold until the National ...
The government approved on Wednesday the use of the first 13 batches of embryonic stem cells for federally funded research under relaxed restrictions announced by President Barack Obama in March.Scores of additional batches, known as lines, should soon be available, the government said.The privately funded batches were made by two researchers at Harvard University and Rockefeller University ...
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 5:18 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 5:18 a.m. The National Institutes of Health said Wednesday that it had approved 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines for use by federally financed researchers, with 96 more under review.
Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study. Results from the Phase I study show stem cells from donor bone marrow appear to help heart attack patients recover better by growing new blood vessels to bring more oxygen to the heart.
PALO ALTO, Calif.----StemCells, Inc. announced today that it welcomes the approval yesterday by the National Institutes of Health of the first 13 human embryonic stem cell lines for use in NIH-funded research under the NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research adopted in July 2009.
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