The world's first official trial using human embryonic stem cells in patients has been halted.
They've found a way to make human embryonic stem cells without using human eggs or human embryos.
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.
Two years later, though, one researcher derived the first human embryonic stem cells by turning to private funding.
That discovery has cast light on human embryonic development and, indeed, on the everyday working of adult bodies.
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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.
The research team, led by Robert Lanza, took human embryonic stem cells and coaxed them into becoming RPE cells.
Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.
Geron's treatment for spinal cord injury was the first human embryonic stem cell therapy to receive FDA approval for a clinical trial.
Scientists hope human embryonic stem cell research will lead to treatments and cures for many diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injuries.
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 Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells has the potential to lead to better understanding and treatment of many disabling diseases and conditions.
In an email, Wutz told me that both human embryonic and induced pluripotent cell culture media and conditions are being developed, but they are not optimal at present.
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Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is being widely mocked for a bill to ban the use of human embryonic tissue in the production or research of food.
Its submission to the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct the first trial in patients of human embryonic stem cells was the largest and most complex ever submitted.
Geron and GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric, are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.
He used to be in charge at Geron and helped fund the research which led to first human embryonic stem cell line being created in 1998 and now heads another company, BioTime.
When the first iPS cells were developed two years ago in Japan and the United States, skin cells were reprogrammed to be able to have properties similar to a human embryonic stem cell.
General Electric ( GE - news - people ), are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
The centre is already under construction and the president of Stanford University, John Hennessey, supported Mr Clark, saying that many scientists were concerned about the long-term impact of restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research.
Dr Frisen reckons that they may offer several advantages over human embryonic stem cells which, although easier to manipulate, are a controversial source of new tissue because they are still mainly obtained from aborted fetuses.
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.
For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A breakthrough in human embryonic stem cell research by scientists in South Korea has been hailed as ground-breaking, with the potential to fight a host of ailments, but some people have raised ethical concerns.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist -- who gained fame in 2004 when he claimed to have cloned human embryonic stem cells -- on Monday was convicted of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, state media reported.
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