Useful Links

1. Johns Hopkins Medicine
2. ICE and Stem Cell Resources Center
3. NIH website and hESC registry
4. ISSCR
5. WiCell Research Institute
6. Other ICE core facilities
7. Globalstem, Inc.
8. Other Commercial vendors
9. Nature Reports Stem Cells
10. Cell: Stem Cell
11. Stem Cells Journal
12. 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.