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...Geron Iakovos, Greek Orthodox Archbishop
Despite fears expressed by many scientists that they would have to pay dearly to work on stem cells, officials at WARF are echoing Freire's sentiments. The foundation has licensed the Menlo Park, Calif., biotech firm Geron to commercialize six specific cell types derived from Thomson's five primary stem-cell lines--though it is fighting the company's attempt to extend that license to 12 more derived types...
...this early stage, investigators aren't so much developing cures as creating research and manufacturing techniques. For that, the specific cell lines aren't important. "This will enable the biomedical community to iron out the molecular biology of these cells," says Dr. Thomas Okarma, CEO of the biotech firm Geron, which finances stem-cell pioneer James Thomson as well as John Gearhart, "and that doesn't turn on one cell line vs. another...
With no fanfare, Thomson set himself up six years ago in an off-campus lab under a nonprofit arrangement with the University of Wisconsin's alumni association. That way he freed himself from existing federal restrictions--and avoided jeopardizing the university's government-funded research. Geron Corp., the Menlo Park, Calif., biotech firm that was financing Gearhart's efforts, partly bankrolled Thomson's work in exchange for commercial rights. (Thomson, however, was free to distribute his stem cells to fellow academics.) Because he could afford only one part-time assistant, he ended up doing much of the work himself, getting...
...many tissue factories seems straight out of Huxley. It certainly doesn't sit well with antiabortion activists--or, in many cases, with lawmakers. In 1996 Congress banned human-embryo research by federally supported scientists, forcing researchers like Pedersen to seek private funding (most of which has been provided by Geron, a Menlo Park, Calif., biotech company...