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What the President didn't mention: to make all this happen, the University of Wisconsin would have to agree. It was at Wisconsin that biologist James Thomson first isolated embryonic stem cells in 1998. And it is at the affiliated, nonprofit Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that the patent governing such cells--whether they were isolated at Wisconsin or not--resides. Anyone who wants to work with them may well have to sign an agreement with WiCell Research Institute, which was set up to distribute WARF's stem cells...
...terms of research, this does not create any kind of impediment," says Terry Devitt, director of research communications for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where much of the pioneering work on stem cells has been conducted. "No one in the scientific community is surprised by this - it?s not exactly a revelation...
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...
Since then, Thomson, an intensely private person, has been lofted out of obscurity. He received a red-carpet invitation to the Wisconsin state capital from then Governor Tommy Thompson, now Bush's Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is still consulted by Thompson's office on stem-cell issues but wasn't contacted directly by the White House for last week's decision. (Ironically, Thomson is the lead plaintiff in a case titled Thomson v. Thompson, seeking to force NIH to underwrite stem-cell research...
ISSUES Big year for health problems, energy concerns, business impact. Old reliable: a rise in daytime movie attendance. New discovery: hot Wisconsin cows are producing less milk...