Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Second Part of Series on Michael West, CEO of BioTime, is up at Signals

The second part of my series of posts on Michael West, CEO of BioTime, is up at Signals Blog.  The first post can be found here.

In this part, I took a look at BioTime's ever-expanding product line of embryonic progenitor cells, which now total about 200.  At first glance, the size of their catalogue surprised me:
To me, the emphasis for growing the product line seemed to come at the cost of diversity. It felt counterintuitive to define hundreds of different cell lines when stem cells have the advantage of being pluripotent. Shouldn’t a few dozen cell lines be enough to cover all the major applications of regenerative medicine?

Not so, explained West...
Visit Signals Blog to see his explanation

While you're there, check out the many other great articles on the blog, particularly from bloggers such as David Kent and Ben Paylor.