Nor will it affect the United Kingdom's strong support of stem cell research.

Stem Cell Obscurantism

And I focused my research on stem cells as a possible source for cell transplants.

This is a stem cell that we've developed here in Oxford, from an embryonic stem cell.

To support valuable research efforts, Singapore has been putting in place a proper legal and ethical framework for stem cell research.

And at that time, stem cell research had gained momentum, following the isolation of the world's first human embryonic stem cells in the 1990s.

The Stem Cell Race Continues

The United Kingdom Government announced this week more than 2 billion in funding over the next three years for biotechnology research, including stem cell research.

But because each of your cells contains your entire gene code, each cell can be reprogrammed, if we don't stop stem cell research and if we don't stop genomic research, to express different body functions.

But where is stem cell therapy really going?

That belief lay behind Bush s denial of federal government funds for stem cell research that could encourage the destruction of human embryos. Although the Bush administration acknowledged that some scientists believe stem cell research could offer new ways of treating diseases that affect 128 million Americans, this prospect evidently did not, in Bush s view, justify destroying human embryos.

And it seemed that tumors actually begin from a stem cell.

So, remember I told you about my brother's stem cell transplant.

Stem cell derived retinal transplants, now in a research phase, may one day restore vision, or part vision, to millions of patients with retinal diseases worldwide.

The Declaration just adopted was non binding, did not reflect consensus within the General Assembly, and would not affect his country's approach to stem cell research.

Stem cell therapies may one day reduce the need for donor organs.

Not surprisingly, given its huge potential, teams of scientists have been mobilized almost everywhere for embryonic stem cell research. The race has become all the more dramatic since the leading researcher, the US, dropped out, owing to the influence of religion on politics (although the state of California has decided not to miss out, and recently approved a 3 billion subsidy for embryonic stem cell research).

We will continue to disagree on many things such as the nature of democracy, gender relationships, the death penalty, stem cell research and what we can or cannot eat.

We can now reprogram your skin cells to actually act like a pluripotent embryonic stem cell and to utilize those potentially to treat multiple organs in that same patient making your own personalized stem cell lines.

Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem cell therapy for over 40 years.

Or we can use cells alone, either your very own cells or different stem cell populations.

The Sino US stem cell project will be officially put into operation at the end of the year.

And one of the the cutting edge areas that we're just incredibly excited about is stem cell therapy.

A stem cell changes its identity through a process of triggering a signal literally turns on the liver cell gene inside the stem version. When scientists figure out how to flip these switches, it might be possible to introduce stem cells into the body and activate them so that they correctly replace damaged tissue, whatever it is.

With stem cell research, huge fortunes depend on which group takes the lead, wherever their laboratory is located. As the competition heats up, we should expect amazing developments and no doubt more public relations gimmicks.

Here's another example of stem cell therapy that isn't quite clinical yet, but I think very soon will be.

Still, the dilemma is obvious in pioneering fields like biomedicine, nanotechnology, and neurosciences. Research in these areas sometimes meets with vehement rejection, for example, on religious grounds with respect to stem cell research, or owing to fear with respect to the possibility of altering human identity.

Last summer I worked at Stanford University, doing some research on cancer stem cells.

As we speak, the world's first human embryonic stem cell trial for spinal cord injury is currently underway following the USFDA approval.

So I am a pediatric cancer doctor and stem cell researcher at Stanford University where my clinical focus has been bone marrow transplantation.

We will not know how close we are to the production of individually tailored stem cell lines until the scientific investigations into Hwang s research are completed. Nevertheless, few researchers doubt that what Hwang and his colleagues claimed to do is, in principle, achievable.

So we hypothesized that female stem cells might be better at identifying the injury, doing some cellular repair or even producing new organs, which is one of the things that we're trying to do with stem cell therapy.

But the moral controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells the fact that these cells are derived from five day old human embryos has encouraged research into other types of stem cells.

Embryonic stem cells have occupied center stage, chiefly because of their pluripotency that is their ease in differentiating into a variety of different cell types.

They reported that they had used their method to produce 11 human stem cell lines that were genetic matches of patients aged 2 to 56.

So this is not the issue. The Nobelists point is that, as far as therapeutic cloning is concerned, rather than attempting global prohibition, it would be much wiser, and possibly more effective, to promote an international regulatory regime through ample legalization of stem cell research.

Whereas a skin cell or a liver cell, for instance, can reproduce only more skin or liver, stem cells, which are the most robust at the beginning of human development, are master cells. As a fertilized egg turns into an embryo, and then a fetus, those initial stem cells somehow show their daughter cells how to become skin, liver, eye, or bone.

While still in a research phase, stem cells may one day herald a quantum leap in the field of cardiology.

Fat derived stem cells are adult stem cells.

According to the Voice of China CNR News , a new breakthrough has been achieved in the clinical study of stem cell intervention for premature ovarian failure in China.

That might be why governments are so widely seen to have a positive duty to promote stem cell research and other forms of medical progress. Biotechnology industries flourish, with state sanction and support, because they add extra value to the body, the object of supreme worth to us.

On May 19, a group of Korean scientists published in the magazine Science the results of research that for the first time isolated human embryonic stem cell lines specifically tailored to match the DNA of male and female patients of various ages. The next day, British scientists at Newcastle University announced that they had successfully produced a cloned human embryo using donated eggs and genetic material from stem cells.

But adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.

And here is the limitation adult stem cells are mature cells, and, like mature human beings, these cells are more restricted in their thought and more restricted in their behavior and are unable to give rise to the wide variety of specialized cell types, as embryonic stem cells can .

We saw a clear example of this last November in California, where 60 of the electorate voted in favor of Proposition 71 on state funding for stem cell research. Similarly, the latest polls in Italy suggest that the overwhelming majority of those who intend to vote are in favor of therapeutic cloning.