Wednesday, April 02, 2008

High-res technology shows significant differences in stem cell lines

Source: University of California - Los Angeles
Date: April 2, 2008

Summary:

UCLA stem cell researchers using a high-resolution technique to examine the genome of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines have found that while both lines could form neurons, they differed in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility. The study appears in the April issue of the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells.