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NIGMS Funds New Stem Cell Centers Brief Description: Transcript: Zatz: To learn a whole lot more about how you maintain these stem cell lines in culture, how you maintain them in their potential and differentiated state, and how you can drive them to differentiate in a variety of directions. And all of this knowledge is very primitive right now. Schmalfeldt: The centers, two in New York and one in California, will establish core facilities to support and train scientists, and to define the growth conditions and molecular characteristics required for maintaining human embryonic stem cells in an undifferentiated state. Zatz: Our hope was that we would engage the kind of basic scientists that NIGMS in general supports, and to begin to identify the characteristics of these cells that make them unique. Schmalfeldt: Each center will receive an estimated $3-million over
three years. They'll join three other centers the institute established in 2003. All
of these centers will use only federally-approved stem cell lines listed on the NIH
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. From the National Institutes of Health, I'm Bill
Schmalfeldt in Bethesda, Maryland. |
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