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MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2001

The National Institutes of Health today will release a list of facilities whose stem cell lines are eligible for federal funds.

The 10 companies and laboratories are located throughout the world and have a varying number of stem cell colonies, or "lines." There are 64 total.

As reported by the media, the list is composed of (followed by number of lines): BresaGen, Athens, Ga. (4); CyThera, San Diego (9); the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (5); the Monash Institute of Reproductive Biology, Melbourne, Australia (6); the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India (3); Reliance Life Sciences, Bombay (7); the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (4); the University of California, San Francisco (2); Goteborg University of Goteborg, Sweden (19); the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, of Madison (5).

Get the Story:
U.S. Plans To Name Labs With Stem Cells (The Washington Post 8/27)
U.S. Approves Labs With Stem Cells for Federal Use (The New York Times 8/27)
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Relevant Links:
National Institutes of Health - http://www.nih.gov

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