First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for Use Under New NIH Guidelines

[kpete]

Source: National Institute Of Health

First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for Use Under New NIH Guidelines

NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today 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.

"I am happy to say that we now have human embryonic stem cell lines eligible for use by our research community under our new stem cell policy," Dr. Collins said. "In accordance with the guidelines, these stem cell lines were derived from embryos that were donated under ethically sound informed consent processes. More lines are under review now, and we anticipate continuing to expand this list of responsibly derived lines eligible for NIH funding."

Children's Hospital Boston developed 11 of the approved lines and Rockefeller University in New York City developed two of the approved lines. An additional 96 lines have been submitted to NIH for either internal administrative review or consideration by the external Working Group for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Eligibility Review and the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), including more than 20 that will be considered by the ACD on December 4, 2009. The working group provides findings to the ACD, which makes recommendations to the NIH Director, who decides whether the hESCs may be used in NIH-funded research and lists those deemed eligible on the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry.

Research using hESCs is already yielding information about the complex events that occur during human development. Researchers hope that eventually cells differentiated from hESCs may be used to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities and to test the safety of new drugs in the laboratory.

Read more: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2009/od-02.htm

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[SPedigrees]

2. About time! For those who can't see any difference between Obama and Bush

here's an important difference... one of many.

[goclark]

4. K and R ~ joyous news nt

[No Elephants]

13. It's true that this is ONE difference. So far, though, I've seen more similarities than differences

when it comes to things that really matter.

At that, this is all of 13 lines. Even Bush had approved 21 lines. Hopefully, under Obama, we will eventually see more, though.

[tridim]

3. Undeniable change.

This story would not be written if McCain had won.

[catbyte]

5. Amen to that!

Now maybe they'll start to unlock the mysteries of diseases like diabetes (hubby in ICU as I type this from complications arising from having Type I DM for 50 years), or ALS which my beloved dad died of in 2000, and which I'm worried about because 10% of ALS cases are hereditary and I'll be damed if I'll die that way. It's one of the worst diseases on the planet. Brutal. Ugly. Devastating.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I wish all the haters out there would give Obama a break already. What a bunch of bellyachers. GIVE THE MAN TIME, PEOPLE! Please?

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[tridim]

6. breakthroughs like this could save us billions on health care costs.

I think we're right on the verge of several MAJOR advancements in medicine that will change everything.

[No Elephants]

15. Why do you say that? McCain has supported embryonic stem cell research since 2001.

Stem cell research
McCain is a member of The Republican Main Street Partnership and supports embryonic stem cell research. McCain had earlier opposed embyronic stem cell research<324> and credits former First Lady Nancy Reagan, a prominent Republican supporter of such research, with changing his mind in 2001.<325> He states that he believes that stem cell research, and indeed embryonic stem cell research, will continue whether or not the U.S. sanctions it, and so it would be the wisest course of action to support it to the extent that the United States will be able to regulate and monitor the use. In July 2008 he said “At the moment I support stem cell research the potential it has for curing some of the most terrible diseases that afflict mankind.”<326>

McCain opposes embryonic stem cell research that uses cloned human embryos. In 2006 he supported a trio of U.S. Senate bills designed to increase federal funding for adult stem cell research, ban the creation of embryos for research and offer federal support for research using embryos slated for destruction by fertility clinics. In 2007, in what he described as "a very agonizing and tough decision," he voted to allow research using human embryos left over from fertility treatments. <3> Pew Forum, 2008


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_John_McCain

[unabelladonna]

7. thoiis is one of the reasons

i voted for obama. there is a difference.

[SpartanDem]

8. NIH authorizes use of first human embryonic stem cells under new policy

Source: Washington Post

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.

The National Institutes of Health authorized 11 lines of cells produced by scientists at the Children's Hospital in Boston and two lines created by researchers at the Rockefeller University in New York. All were obtained from embryos left over by couples seeking treatment for infertility.

"This is a real change in the landscape," NIH Director Francis Collins said. "This is the first down payment on what is going to be a much longer list . . . that will empower the scientific community to explore the potential of embryonic stem cell research."

The move was hailed by supporters of the research as a long-awaited watershed that would finally allow scientists to start using millions of dollars in taxpayer money to study hundreds of lines of cells that had been put off-limits by President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, on moral grounds


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120201955.html

[babylonsister]

9. Excellent! nt

[Soylent Brice]

10. K&R

[Javaman]

11. let the moronic protesting begin!!

you know it's going to happen, right? Get ready for the latest round of misspelled protest signs.

[Hekate]

12. K&R. This is great news. Science over superstition and propaganda.

And this is really, really NOT like Bush.

Hekate

[No Elephants]

14. A whole 13 lines? And that took 10 months from signing of the Executive Order?

Our government has jumped the damned shark.

[Odin2005]

16. WOOHOO!!!

:woohoo:

[RebelOne]

17. This is not going over well with the fundie nut cases.

www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=118872