Word: celling
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...Among the discoveries were the creation of 10 disease-specific stem cell lines and the direct conversion of mouse pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells that can be used to treat patients with Type I diabetes...
...though the next presidential administration may prove friendlier to stem cell research, funding for the National Institutes of Health has been frozen in recent years, meaning that it has declined in real terms...
...Though he used money from the NIH New Innovator Award that he won last year, Hochedlinger’s research was not subject to federal embryonic stem cell restrictions because iPS cells are created from skin cells or blood cells instead of from embryos. His work was also funded in part by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...While embryonic stem cell research has come under fire from those who consider it unethical, Harvard scientists involved in the work continue to say that the research is essential...
...noted that scientists are now able to generate iPS cells—which are embraced by those who oppose embryonic stem cell research—only because of previous work performed with embryonic stem cells...