my understanding from the handful of news articles, is the ban on public funding of hESC has been lifted; however, the ban on creation of new hESC has not been lifted. That means that scientists have the 20 or so hESC lines to work on and study, but we can't create new cell lines
this is a big deal because the existing cell lines were created about 10 years ago using the knowledge and technology of that day; if we could make new cell lines, then maybe the issue of hESC becoming cancerous could be overcome by better techniques
Last edited by Canada 02; 03-10-2009 at 02:44 PM.
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