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Article: NIH Enters Agreement For Access To Six Stem Cell Lines.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- November 4, 2009
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Washington Editor
The National Institutes of Health and an Australia-based company have signed an international agreement allowing U.S. scientists to study human embryonic stem cells listed as acceptable by President Bush.
The agreement, known as a memorandum of understanding (MOU), specifies that NIH scientists and its contractors can study the six stem cell lines held by ES Cell International Pte. Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia, without signing over intellectual property rights. In September, the NIH entered a similar agreement with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), which owns five lines and holds the patent to a technique used to develop ...