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Invitrogen Licenses Neural Stem Cell Line from Buck Institute

Jul 30, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Invitrogen said today that it has licensed an engineered neural stem cell line from the Buck Institute for Age Research.
 
Invitrogen said that the stem cell line, BG01 Olig2-GFP, has been engineered to track the Olig2 gene, which controls a protein that maintains a neural stem cell's ability to replicate early in brain development, and then directs it to form a particular type of neural cell.
 
Joydeep Goswami, vice president of primary and stem cell systems at Invitrogen, said that the company plans to offer the cell line to its customers as well as to “further develop products from the line that will serve as valuable tools in neural stem cell research.”
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not provided.

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