MADISON, Wis. (AP) â?? The National Stem Cell Bank here might soon get bigger.
The bank already houses and distributes most of the stem cells available for federally funded research, and its leaders hope to add cells created with a new technique that does not involve the destruction of embryos.
The National Institutes of Health created the bank in Madison in 2005 as the central repository for federally approved embryonic stem cells. It is operated by the WiCell Research Institute, a nonprofit connected to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.