Useful Links
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- ICE and Stem Cell Resources Center
- NIH website and hESC registry
- ISSCR
- WiCell Research Institute
- Other ICE core facilities
- Globalstem, Inc.
- Other Commercial vendors
- Nature Reports Stem Cells
- Cell: Stem Cell
- Stem Cells Journal
- ESCRO and other policy links:
- NIH Policy on Stem Cell Research
- National Academies of Science Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee
- National Academies of Science Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Summary-PDF)
- AAMC Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2006)
Recommended Articles
- Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative. Nature Biotechnology. 25, 803–816 (2007).
- Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science. 1998 Nov 6;282(5391):1145-7.
- Embryonic stem cell lines from human blastocysts: somatic differentiation in vitro. Nature Biotechnology. 2000 18, 399-404.
- Human feeders support prolonged undifferentiated growth of human inner cell masses and embryonic stem cells Nature Biotechnology (01 Sep 2002)
- Human adult marrow cells support prolonged expansion of human embryonic stem cells in culture. Stem Cells. 2003;21(2):131-42.
- Feeder-free growth of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells Nature Biotechnology Research (01 Oct 2001)
- Feeder-independent culture of human embryonic stem cells. Nature Methods. 2006 Aug;3(8):637-46.
- Characterization and culture of human embryonic stem cells Nature Biotechnology Research (01 Jun 2005)
- Transcriptome characterization elucidates signaling networks that control human ES cell growth and differentiation Nature Biotechnology (01 Jun 2004)
- Directed differentiation of telencephalic precursors from embryonic stem cells Nature Neuroscience (01 Mar 2005)
- Efficient differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to definitive endoderm. Nature Biotechnology. 2005 Dec;23(12):1534-41.