CGS-authored
STEM CELL RESEARCH WOULD BENEFIT FROM S.F. EFFORT
A San Francisco fertility clinic will recruit Bay Area women to provide eggs for stem cell research, helping build the world's first-ever bank of cloned embryos -- which could supply new stem cell lines and perhaps replacement tissue for people with serious diseases.
The Pacific Fertility Center hopes to offer eggs in January to a future Bay Area satellite clinic of the new South Korea-based World Stem Cell Foundation, according to center medical director Dr. Philip E. Chenette.
``What is happening in the Bay Area is the development of a huge stem cell research and development program,'' Chenette said. ``We want to be part of it.
``The possibility of having a group of your cells, or mine, sitting in a lab and used to study a disease -- that's never been possible before,'' he said.
The foundation, announced Wednesday in Seoul, is being headed by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University, the first person to clone human embryos for the creation of stem cells. The foundation intends to...
A San Francisco fertility clinic will recruit Bay Area women to provide eggs for stem cell research, helping build the world's first-ever bank of cloned embryos -- which could supply new stem cell lines and perhaps replacement tissue for people with serious diseases.
The Pacific Fertility Center hopes to offer eggs in January to a future Bay Area satellite clinic of the new South Korea-based World Stem Cell Foundation, according to center medical director Dr. Philip E. Chenette.
``What is happening in the Bay Area is the development of a huge stem cell research and development program,'' Chenette said. ``We want to be part of it.
``The possibility of having a group of your cells, or mine, sitting in a lab and used to study a disease -- that's never been possible before,'' he said.
The foundation, announced Wednesday in Seoul, is being headed by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University, the first person to clone human embryos for the creation of stem cells. The foundation intends to...