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New to Cell-Based Assay News? For a trial subscription click here. US, UK Scientists Derive First-Ever Rat ESCs
To Allow Better Human Disease Models
[January 2, 2009]
By Charlotte LoBuono
This finding will allow scientists to create more effective animal models of human diseases than the mouse models currently available, and may also allow scientists to establish real ESC lines from a number of other mammals, which could have significant implications for the development of drug therapies, a USC scientist told CBA News this week.