美国政府星期一宣布首个联邦资助的干细胞库将建立在最早分离人类胚胎干细胞的威斯康辛大学。国立卫生研究院说该细胞库将储存许多被正式认可的人类胚胎干细胞。威斯康辛WiCell 研究所的国家干细胞库将集中联邦资助的许多人类胚胎干细胞株, 减少研究员支付细胞的费用, 提高细胞的管理质量。国立卫生研究院并认为它会资助二个胚胎干细胞的研究中心, 一个在加州大学戴维斯分校, 另一个在芝加哥的西北大学。

The University of Wisconsin, where human embryonic stem cells were first isolated, will host the first federally funded bank of the valuable cells, the U.S. government said on Monday. The bank will house many of the officially sanctioned batches of human embryonic stem cells, the National Institutes of Health said. "The National Stem Cell Bank, awarded to the WiCell Research Institute in Wisconsin, will consolidate many of the federally funded eligible human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines in one location, reduce the costs that researchers have to pay for the cells, and maintain quality control over the cells," the NIH said in a statement. The NIH also said it would fund two centers, at the University of California, Davis and Northwestern University in Chicago, for embryonic stem-cell research. (See Story from Reuters)