Ocata Therapeutics Inc fka OCAT

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Of the 21 lines under Bush era only 3 were widely used,(H1, H7 and H9) The line used by ACTC was H9. Of the 96 pending hESC lines under review only the H1 line is listed.(last one on list)
http://grants.nih.gov/stem_cells/registry/pending.htm

"Though the Bush administration said the bank maintained 21 cell lines eligible for funding from the National Institutes of Health, three of those lines have never been available to researchers, and a fourth line just became usable this year, the researchers said.

Of the remaining 17 cell lines, more than three-quarters of all requests from scientists involved just two. The H1 line accounted for 39% of the orders, and the H9 line made up an additional 38%, according to records from the stem cell bank. The only other line that has been requested more than 100 times is H7. Nine of the lines haven't even made it into the double digits. It's not clear if only those three lines were easy to work with, or if they were favored for other reasons."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/08/science/sci-stem-cells8