Friday January 29, 2010 NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins approved the recommendation of the Director’s Advisory Committee to approve WiCell’s H1 embryonic stem cell line for inclusion in the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. This is the first line from the Bush-era approved for federal funding under the new NIH Guidelines. Forty-three lines are now listed.
For more information see the NIH website
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We want to clone stem cells, not babies. SCNT doesn’t produce babies, it produces custom-made stem cells that will not be rejected by the patient’s immune system so that we can transplant them without the need for immunosuppressant drugs.” “No sperm is involved, and the cells are not implanted into any womb.
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