The Stem Cell Database.(Brief Article)

In connection with a paper published in Science, the Stem Cell Database has been published online, providing access to the database of genes and outlining many aspects of stem-cell biology (Website: www. stemcell.princeton.edu). Mostly through the work of postdoctoral researcher Robert Phillips from the Princeton laboratory of Ihor Lemischka, professor of molecular biology and senior author of the Science paper, the database is extensively annotated and includes comparisons to information from other major sources.

The researchers plan eventually to open an identical database to house con/tributions from other scientists. "We hope that the database will become a major …