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Eleven lines of human embryonic stem cells produced by the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston were approved for federal research funding by the National Institutes of Health last Wednesday...
...July, President Barack Obama reversed his predecessor’s restriction on the authorization of new stem cell lines, enabling the NIH to approve funding for the Children’s Hospital’s batch...
...thirteen total lines approved by the NIH constitute the first batch of new stem cell sources authorized for funding since 2001, when former President George W. Bush prohibited the approval of new stem cell lines. Twenty-seven more lines developed at Harvard are slated for approval in the next few weeks...
Prior to the most recent group of approved stem cell lines, only 22 lines had been eligible for federal funding, according to Harvard Medical School associate professor George Q. Daley ’82, director of the Children’s Hospital lab that oversaw the development of the recently approved lines...
...Stem-Cell-Created Mice The birth of yet another laboratory mouse is hardly worth noting - unless the furry creature is the first to be developed from stem cells that do not involve embryonic cells. That deserves to be called a breakthrough. The new pups, whose creation in two separate labs in China was announced in July, were the first to be bred from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. These are adult cells (usually skin cells) that scientists reprogram back to their embryonic state by introducing four genes. The reprogrammed stem cells are then programmed again to develop into mice...