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Research Arm of U. of Wisconsin at Madison Wins NIH Contract to Run National Stem Cell Bank

The National Institutes of Health said on Monday that it had selected a research affiliate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to run the federal government’s national repository for human embryonic stem cells. The affiliate, the WiCell Research Institute, will sell batches of the cells for $500 each, a 90-percent reduction in the price it and other suppliers have charged for the cells they own.