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Article: Other News To Note.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- January 11, 2008
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Advanced Cell Technology Inc., of Worcester, Mass., said it developed five human embryonic stem cells lines without the destruction of embryos. Its method, as published in Cell Stem Cells, calls for single cells to be removed from embryos using a technique similar to preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and then cultured using a methodology designed to recreate the optimal development environment. Results demonstrated substantially improved efficiency in deriving stem cells to rates comparable to using the traditional approach of deriving stem cells from the inner cell mass of a whole blastocyst-stage embryo and showed that the stem cells were genetically normal and ...
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