Melton landed enough money to start a separate lab, and he works on turning his stem line into insulin-producing cells to study where they go wrong in diabetics.
In the future, Mitalipov anticipates it will be possible to produce a stem cell line from each donated egg.
But in the first experiment we got a blastocyst and within a couple of months we already had an (embryonic) stem cell line.
He used to be in charge at Geron and helped fund the research which led to first human embryonic stem cell line being created in 1998 and now heads another company, BioTime.
One of the recommendations made by the group was for journal editors to ask authors of stem cell research papers to submit data verifying the authenticity of the stem cell line, and an explanation of how they had complied with accepted standards of good cell culture practice.
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The other thing it does is it makes it extremely easy now to tailor a stem cell to an individual because all I have to do is get a few skin cells from you and then put in these magic factors, and suddenly I've got an embryonic stem cell line that's tailor made directly to you.
They were able to get a clone in a stem-cell line in basically one of 17 eggs used.
They built a business called Exploration Nation around Enzo and his friends learning and teaching STEM curriculum on-line.
It is no excuse either for the HP board to have gambled its future on growth by acquisition to stem the way its old-line core businesses, like storage and enterprise software, were collapsing.
That means the controversy about using stem cells derived from human embryos is largely absent from this line of research.
An ardent opponent of stem-cell experimentation, Focus on the Family, takes a hard line.
Janet Finch Saunders AM noted the decline in GCSE take up of STEM subjects and the fact that take up at A level has not increased in line with overall A level entries as she called on the government to introduce a programme encouraging highly talented people into STEM subject teaching.
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