Reporter Carl Hall wrote a piece on Saturday that said:
Hall's piece also contains greater detail on the San Francisco work than reported by the Journal."UCSF's project is the only one of its kind on the West Coast, although this type of work also is being pursued by researchers in San Diego and is expected to be a key priority of the California Proposition 71 program.
"The first stage of the work at UCSF is being backed by private donations, and the experimental protocol has passed all the necessary ethical approvals. The research team is led by Renee Reijo Pera, a UCSF associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. She also is co-director of the UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Center."
Terri Somers had reported on 11 Jan 2006:
ReplyDeleteBefore Hwang's claims began to fall apart, Dr. Arnold Kriegstein,
who runs the UCSF stem cell program, decided researchers should re-enter the
field to try to improve upon the South Korean techniques or find others, UCSF spokesperson Jennifer O'Brien said.
One notes that the current UCSF proposal is along the lines of what Hwang Woo-Suk claimed in his first paper in Science in 2004: egg donor = somatic tissue donor.