The drafted guidelines set specific criteria for research and call for establishment of a "Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Review Group, " which would document and monitor compliance.
Instead of generating embryonic stem cell lines via nuclear transfer, Hwang's group produced the stem cells from days-old embryos, a technique that had already been established by James Thomson at University of Wisconsin in 1998.
After years of work his team, in early 2003, unearthed a rare group of stem cells present in human breast cancer tissue.
At least a plurality of each group favors the use of embryonic stem cell research.
The recently formed Hinxton Group, an international consortium on stem cells, ethics and law, met last month to discuss how researchers can establish an international ethical framework for their work.
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The NIH says it will be meeting with the University of Wisconsin group that holds a patent on five stem cell lines its scientists derived.
The rationale for pursuing stem cell therapy in autism is based on encouraging results of unpublished data examining stem cell therapy in children with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect not only movement, but learning, behavior and cognition.
But the Karolinska group has shown that, given a chance, stem cells are capable of even more startling changes.
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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Farrell came on for the last 21 minutes at blind-side flanker but could do little to stem the tide as the Blues went back to the top of the group B table as the only side with two wins out of two.
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THSRC's troubles stem from those of some of its constantly changing investors, including the private Fubon group, and Taisugar, a government-owned sugar company.
Doerflinger said his group is in favor of federal funding of research on non-embryonic stem cell lines, using adult tissue, or tissue from fetuses which died of natural causes.
Seifert, a professor of philosophy at the International Academy of Philosophy in Irving, Texas, appears to be the head of a group of members of the Academy that oppose any public discussions on Vatican property when it comes to stem cells or birth control.
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