Geron and GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric, are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.

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General Electric ( GE - news - people ), are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.

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Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.

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Also known as reprogrammed stem cells, iPSCs are derived from somatic cells taken from adults, and offer researchers a way to examine the development of diseases.

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Professor Ian MacKenzie, a researcher in stem cell biology from the Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, said that it was still likely that stem cells played a significant role in the development of cancer.

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