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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe STEM CELL LAWSUIT The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)—the nonprofit technology management arm of the University of Wisconsin (UW;
Madison, WI)—filed a federal lawsuit on August 13 against Geron (Menlo Park, CA), seeking to block the company from asserting rights to new embryonic stem (ES) cell lines developed at the
university. Having funded research by UW researcher James Thompson, Geron already has exclusive license to six resulting cell lineages, including pancreatic islet cells and osteoblasts.
Geron claims that it exercised an option to add other cell lines to the original license before a July 31 deadline, but WARF maintains that the parties were unable to reach an agreement
after negotiating “in good faith.” Carl Gulbrandsen, WARF managing director, said in a press release that Geron's attempts to secure exclusive use of additional stem cell types would
preclude “the promise to bring the medicine of tomorrow closer to today,” which can only be realized by granting a greater number of researches access to the cell lines. The lawsuit comes in
the wake of US President Bush's decision to restrict federal funding of ES cell research to already existing cell lines (see p. 791). _AB_ This is a preview of subscription content,
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