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Published online 7 July 2009 | 460, 156-157 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460156a
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US stem-cell research expands
Biomedical agency announces new funding policy for cell lines.
Nearly 11 years after Wisconsin-led researchers reported the first isolation of human embryonic stem cells, the field became eligible this week for broad research funding by the US government.
In final guidelines that went into effect on 7 July, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established a process that will allow scientists who hold stem-cell lines derived before this date to apply for their inclusion in an agency-established registry of fundable cell lines.
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