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About WiCell™

The WiCell Research Institute is dedicated to expanding the frontiers of science and medicine by unlocking the potential of stem cells. As a supporting organization of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WiCell conducts research, supports research at UW-Madison, hosts the National Stem Cell Bank, provides training for scientists, and offers educational outreach programs for K-12 students and the community.

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NIH Reapproves WiCell’s H9 and Three Other Wisconsin Stem Cell Lines for Use in Federally Funded Research

April 27, 2010

MADISON, Wis. – Today the National Institutes of Health reapproved the WiCell Research Institute’s H9 (WA09) human embryonic stem (ES) cell line, the most used and cited in scientific research, for ongoing use in federally funded research.   It also reapproved three of the other original “Wisconsin” lines, H7 (WA07), H13 (WA13) and H14 (WA14).  These four Bush-era lines along with WiCell’s H1 (WA01), which was reapproved  by the NIH  in January, date to the 1998 discovery of these unique and  revolutionary cells in the University of Wisconsin-Madison lab of Dr. James Thomson. They have been used in hundreds of federal research projects, as allowed under the Bush administration, since 2001.

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