Bush's decision in August 2001 to permit federal financing for research on human embryonic stem (ES) cells using established ES cell lines. Stem-cell research has enormous potential value in both ...

However, many of these human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines banked in repositories or developed in labs likely harbor thousands of undetected mutations, casting doubt on how generalizable ...

NIH opens federal funding for 13 embryonic stem cell lines, will review 96 more. Dec. 2, 2009— -- The National Institutes of Health announced it will make 13 new embryonic stem cell lines ...

of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as ...

See About archive blog posts. The number of human embryonic stem cell lines eligible to be used in government-funded research just went up by 13. The new lines were derived from embryos created ...

Harvard scientists obtained samples of most of the human embryonic stem cell lines registered with the National Institutes of Health for use in both basic research and in developing therapies for ...

At present, approximately 15 human embryonic stem-cell lines are publicly available, and they vary considerably in their usefulness for research and the extent of their characterization (see http ...

Frist and others would expand funding to cover new stem cell lines created from frozen embryos left over from fertility treatments, embryos that would otherwise be discarded. (It’s possible that ...

The potential benefit to patient populations may depend partially on the diversity of the stem-cell lines that are available for research and clinical use. However, investigators have been unable ...

WASHINGTON -- Thirteen human embryonic stem-cell lines have been approved for use in federally funded research and approval of many more lines is expected to follow, the head of the National ...

In a decade of research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), scientists have largely depended on just two cell lines, greatly limiting the diversity of research in ...