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...long before scientists can order shipments of disease-specific cell lines from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) so that they can study diseases in Petri dishes, according to a new study released by scientists at HSCI...
...This has really been one of the goals of stem cell biology for many years—to be able to produce customized disease-specific lines for different patients," said George Q. Daley, a member of the executive committee of HSCI and the senior author of the paper, which was published on the Web site of the journal Cell earlier this month...
Daley, who is also a professor at Harvard Medical School, said that he and his colleagues created 20 stable iPS cell lines from patients with genetic diseases including Parkinson's, Huntington's, Down Syndrome, juvenile-onset Type I diabetes, and two types of muscular dystrophy...
...Konrad A. Hochedlinger, a Medical School professor whose laboratory contributed the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome cell line to the project, said that the "iPS trick" will change the face of stem cell research...
...Core Facility, which was established this July, is one of five core facilities at the Stem Cell Institute, including the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Facility at Children's Hospital, which is also a Harvard affiliate...