International Stem Cell Registry, Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, MA 01545, USA. mai.luong@umassmed.edu
Abstract:
Human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell lines are being generated at a rapid pace and now number in the thousands. We propose a standard nomenclature and suggest the use of a centralized database for all cell line names and a minimum set of information for reporting new derivations.