NIH ES cell lines are ‘not created equal’

August 13, 2007

A study carried out by a team of American researchers has revealed that not all embryonic stem (ES) cell lines are created equal. Led by UCLA’s Yi Sun and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Thomas Sudhof at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the study, which was published this week in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Science, compared mature neurons from two National Institute of Health (NIH) approved ES cell lines. (BioNews)