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March 11, 2008Wisconsin Alumni Foundation Owns Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Well, all of the patents over ESCR held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have been upheld by the Patent Office. From the story:
So what is really going on here is a good old fashioned fight among capitalists over who gets to eat the biggest piece of the pie, as I pointed out here at SHS last year. Typique. Would you deposit to ‘biobank’?Wanted: Your genes. Hoping to link illnesses to genetics and lifestyle, the federal government is exploring the possibility of recruiting a half-million Americans to contribute their DNA and health information to an ambitious national “biobank.” (Mercury News) US Upholds 2 More Stem Cell PatentsThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has upheld a second and a third University of Wisconsin-Madison patent covering embryonic stem cell research at the school. (Washington Post) The Aging Brain Helped By Injection Of Human Umbilical Cord BloodWhen human umbilical cord blood cells (UCBC) were injected into aged laboratory animals, researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) found improvements in the microenvironment of the hippocampus region of the animals’ brains and a subsequent rejuvenation of neural stem/progenitor cells. (Medical News Today)
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