Twenty Disease-specific Stem Cell Lines Created
Friday, August 8, 2008 - 13:28
in Biology & Nature
A set of new stem cell lines will make it possible for researchers to explore ten different genetic disorders—including muscular dystrophy, juvenile diabetes, and Parkinson's disease—in a variety of cell and tissue types as they develop in laboratory cultures. Researchers have produced a robust new collection of disease-specific stem cell lines, all of which were developed using the new induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technique. The new iPS lines, developed from the cells of patients ranging in age from one month to 57-years-old, will be deposited in a new HSCI "core" facility being established at Massachusetts General Hospital.