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The paths around stem cell intellectual property

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Can new approaches for deriving human stem cells circumnavigate existing patents that dominate embryonic stem cell intellectual property?

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Figure 1: The Thomson process claim derives an hES cell line by removing cells of the ICM and plating them on a fibroblast feeder layer.

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    Kenneth S Taymor, Christopher Thomas Scott & Henry T Greely

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Taymor, K., Scott, C. & Greely, H. The paths around stem cell intellectual property. Nat Biotechnol 24, 411–413 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0406-411

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