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Laurence M. Daheron, who is the core facility manager, said that all iPS cell lines will be available free of charge for HSCI members and collaborators, but that non-members and biopharmaceutical companies will have to pay a fee to cover the cost of iPS lines expansion.
The disease-specific iPS lines will soon be deposited in the new HSCI iPS Core Facility at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital to be produced at a larger scale for distribution among the scientific community.
The iPS 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.
Despite the potential for iPS cells to accelerate efforts to find treatments, both Hochedlinger and Daley stressed the continued importance of human embryonic stem cell research, which has come under fire from those who consider the destruction of embryos to be unethical.
The iPS cells are not subject to federal restrictions on embryonic stem cells as they are from skin cells or blood cells instead of embryos, a fact that allows iPS cells to sidestep much of the ethical debate surrounding research on embryonic stem cells. Hochedlinger said though that it would...