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Company collaborates with JDRF to develop clinically useful hES cells

Published in Blood Weekly, October 14th, 2004

ES Cell International Pte, Ltd., (ESI) a stem-cell therapy company, announced a strategic partnership with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF).

The research will be funded through its new JDRF - Industry Discovery and Development Partnership Program that will assist ESI's development of newly derived nonxenograft human embryonic stem (hES) cells, for ultimate use in the production of hES cell-derived islets for the treatment of diabetes.

As a result of past research funded by the JDRF, it has been determined that the transplantation of insulin-producing islet cells currently offers the best hope for a cure for people with...

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