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By simply switching on three critical genes, researchers have coaxed mouse skin cells into becoming heart muscle cells ? without their first reverting back to an embryonic, stem-cell-like state. [...]

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Stem cells have been a hot (and hot-button) topic since researchers began to successfully isolate and develop lines of them in the late 1990s. Recent reports that research using adult stem cell lines has moved ahead of similar research employing embryonic cells, have given both researchers and politicians hope. [...]

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A district judge struck down President Obama's 2009 executive order expanding embryonic stem cell research, saying it violated a ban on federal funds being used to destroy embryos. [...]

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A federal judge on Monday blocked the Obama administration from funding human embryonic stem cell research, ruling that the support violates a federal law barring the use of taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos. [...]

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NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Dr. Zach Hall about stem cell research. Hall is the former head of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH, and first president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state-funded stem cell research facility. He explains the difference between embryonic and adult stem c [...]

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The head of the National Institutes of Health said that some stem cell research would continue for a while, but new research would be stopped, in the wake of a federal judge's ruling blocked Pres. Obama's order to expand embryonic stem cell funding. "I was stunned, as was virtually everyone here at NIH," agency director Francis Collins said. [...]

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He called the start of the trial at Shepherd and six other facilities "a milestone" for the long-contentious field of human embryonic stem cell research. [...]

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The reemergence of the embryonic stem cell research debate comes at a time when social issues such as abortion and same sex marriage have taken a back seat, [...]

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Embryonic stem cells can produce any type of cell in the body and holds much promise for the treatment of various diseases. Critics have said that it is [...]

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Scientists today got one step closer to making that promise a reality as they began an embryonic stem-cell treatment on a patient with spinal cord injuries. [...]

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Russ Feingold, said his opposition to embryonic stem cell research is dictated mainly by economics. The federal government needs to cut $1.5 trillion from [...]

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The government will quickly appeal a court ruling that undercut federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Obama administration declared Tuesday, but dozens of experiments aimed at fighting spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease and other ailments probably will stop in the meantime. [...]

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"I do believe there is a strong, positive sentiment in Congress, actually on both the Republican and the Democratic side, to support embryonic stem cell [...]

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Cell Cure has become the neurological arm of BioTime's programme for the development of human embryonic stem cell based therapies, following BioTime's [...]

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Judge Royce Lamberth ruled this Monday in a case brought by Christian medical groups and adult stem cell researchers, approving a temporary injunction of federally funded research involving embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it violates the 1995 Dickey Wicker amendment. [...]

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A California company announced this week it had begun tests on an embryonic stem-cell treatment for a patient with a severely injured spinal chord, [...]

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A year and a half after President Obama loosened restrictions on government funding of human-embryonic-stem-cell research, a federal judge declared all such studies temporarily off-limits for taxpayer dollars, on the grounds that they violate a 1996 law. [...]

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As a member of Congress, Deal voted against federal funding of all embryonic stem cell research, regardless of the source. Personally, I agree that the [...]

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There is a small but vocal minority who oppose embryonic stem cell research. Some cite moral or religious objections; for others, opposition to such [...]

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The Federal Court enjoined the implementation of the Obama Administration guidelines which would have allowed researchers to extract stem cells from "surplus" embryos donated by patients at fertility clinics. This "extraction" amounts to an execution of human embryonic life. [...]

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A federal district judge has blocked efforts by the National Institutes of Health and the Obama administration to expand federally funded embryonic stem cell research, saying that the effort violated the intent of Congress when it passed a law banning federal funding for any research that involves the destruction of human embryos. [...]

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stem cell research in August, basing his decision on an appropriations rider that prohibits funding for research that creates or kills embryonic stem [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge has issued an injunction against the Obama administration's new initiative to pay for human embryonic stem research. The anti-science ruling throws into doubt $126 million in projected National Institutes of Health spending on the research for 2011 and threatens to take stem cell scientists back to square one. [...]

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Human embryonic stem cells could potentially help paralyzed people walk and restore some bodily functions. The human trial is Phase I of the process thats [...]

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Taubman, a champion of embryonic stem cell research, has donated millions to the University of Michigan's A. Alfred Medical Research Institute in Ann Arbor. [...]