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UW seeks patent on breakthrough; Stem cell method clears ethical barrier
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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November 21, 2007
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Stunning advances in embryonic stem cell research by two teams
oceans apart have a Wisconsin foundation knocking on the patent
office's door again.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed patent
applications, which are not yet public, on the latest research done
by the University of Wisconsin-Madison team led by James Thomson,
said Janet Kelly, a spokeswoman for the university's technology
transfer arm.
The foundation, known as WARF, already has 12 approved stem cell
patents, Kelly said.
Both the Madison team and a Kyoto University-based team in Japan
used four genes to program human cells so they had all the
characteristics of embryonic stem cells. It was the first time this
had ...