In addition to
imported embryonic
stem cell lines, a campaign was carried out in collaboration with the team of Professor Stéphane Viville in Strasbourg, which has enabled us to bank 19
lines from embryos discarded during a preimplantation diagnosis because of the presence of a genetic defect responsible for a severe disease.
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Stem's biobank contains a total of 38 hES
cell lines covering 14 monogenic diseases: 19 were
imported from foreign laboratories and 19 were derived in France (Tropel et al, 2010).