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To: Wes Stevens who wrote (74975)5/13/1999 2:06:00 PM
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Liver From Stem Cells- United Press Intl; ASTM Hold Patents 2s

United Press International is reporting that University of Pittsburgh researchers have derived fully functional liver cells from adult bone marrow, fueling hope that liver
transplants may some day be obsolete. The scientists say this is the first evidence that stem cells from adult bone marrow can provide a lineage for cells that make up
solid organs like the liver. The report appears in (Friday's issue of) the journal Science according to the
report.http://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnZPoqbebCZK3odq&FQ=liver&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20liver%0A

Companies involved with stem cell work include Geron GERN 11s dailynews.yahoo.com
and Aastrom Biosciences ASTM near 2 which controls several patents related to growing stem cells -

" April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASTM - news) announced today that it received from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office patent number 5,888,807 entitled, ''Methods, Compositions and Devices for Maintaining and Growing Human Stem and/or Hematopoietic
Cells,''expanding the patent coverage on the AastromReplicell(TM) Cell Production System (System) and patent number 5,866,400 entitled, ''Methods of
Increasing Rates of Infection by Directing Motion of Vectors'' to enable high-efficiency gene transfer into cells for ex vivo gene therapy."
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