{"id":2542,"date":"2010-12-22T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2010-12-22T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:26:07","slug":"biotech-makes-available-stem-cell-lines-to-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Biotech Makes Available Stem Cell Lines to Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1176\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StemCells_NSF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1176\" title=\"StemCells_NSF\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StemCells_NSF.jpg\" alt=\"Stem Cells (NSF)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StemCells_NSF.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/StemCells_NSF-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stem Cells (National Science Foundation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BioTime Inc., a biotechnology company in Alameda, California said today it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b2i.us\/profiles\/investor\/ResLibraryView.asp?ResLibraryID=42678&amp;GoTopage=1&amp;Category=1802&amp;BzID=1152\">concluded an agreement<\/a> to make five research-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines available to University of California (UC) system researchers. These lines are genetically identical to the Good Management Practice (GMP)-compliant hES cell lines that will be made available to researchers in California under a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b2i.us\/profiles\/investor\/ResLibraryView.asp?ResLibraryID=42062&amp;GoTopage=1&amp;Category=1802&amp;BzID=1152\">recent agreement<\/a> between BioTime and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).<\/p>\n<p>The institutions covered by the agreement include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of California, Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Davis<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Irvine<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Merced<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Riverside<\/li>\n<li>University of California, San Diego<\/li>\n<li>University of California, San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<li>University of California, Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>UC Davis Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>UC Irvine Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>UCLA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Harbor-UCLA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Olive View-UCLA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>UCSD Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>UCSF Medical Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under the agreement with CIRM, BioTime will first provide research grade cell lines, and within one year, if requested, BioTime will also make available GMP-grade cell lines along with documentation and complete genomic DNA sequence information. The use of the GMP grade cell lines may streamline the translation of basic science to human therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The CIRM agreement also stipulates that if the users of the cell lines and BioTime eventually sign license agreements for commercial use of the cell lines, BioTime will receive a royalty on net sales. The agreement with the University of California System applies to the initial research-grade cell lines and is intended to simplify their distribution to researchers in the UC system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioTime Inc., a biotechnology company in Alameda, California said today it concluded an agreement to make five research-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines available to University of California (UC) system researchers. These lines are genetically identical to the Good Management Practice (GMP)-compliant hES cell lines that will be made available to researchers in California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[31,21,64,48,26],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","category-regulations","tag-biomedical","tag-biotech","tag-life-sciences","tag-stem-cells","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}