TY - JOUR
T1 - Access to stem cells and data
T2 - Persons, property rights, and scientific progress
AU - Mathews, Debra J.H.
AU - Graff, Gregory D.
AU - Saha, Krishanu
AU - Winickoff, David E.
PY - 2011/2/11
Y1 - 2011/2/11
N2 - Many fields have struggled to develop strategies, policies, or structures to optimally manage data, materials, and intellectual property rights (IPRs). There is growing recognition that the field of stem cell science, in part because of its complex IPRs landscape and the importance of cell line collections, may require collective action to facilitate basic and translational research. Access to pluripotent stem cell lines and the information associated with them is critical to the progress of stem cell science, but simple notions of access are substantially complicated by shifting boundaries between what is considered information versus material, person versus artifact, and private property versus the public domain.
AB - Many fields have struggled to develop strategies, policies, or structures to optimally manage data, materials, and intellectual property rights (IPRs). There is growing recognition that the field of stem cell science, in part because of its complex IPRs landscape and the importance of cell line collections, may require collective action to facilitate basic and translational research. Access to pluripotent stem cell lines and the information associated with them is critical to the progress of stem cell science, but simple notions of access are substantially complicated by shifting boundaries between what is considered information versus material, person versus artifact, and private property versus the public domain.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1201382
DO - 10.1126/science.1201382
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 21311015
AN - SCOPUS:79951493424
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 331
SP - 725
EP - 727
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6018
ER -