NotablePrimary completion date: Dec 2025 to Dec 2030v34
MinorStudy completion date: Dec 2025 to Dec 2030v33
4 versionsRe-verified since Aug 11, 2021, no change to tracked fieldsv29-v32
MinorStart date: Apr 2004 to Apr 6, 2004
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NotableEnrollment target: 30 to 70v25
NotablePrimary and study completion dates: Dec 2020 to Dec 2025v24
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NotablePrimary and study completion dates: Dec 2018 to Dec 2020v22
2 versionsRe-verified since Sep 1, 2015, no change to tracked fieldsv20-v21
NotablePrimary and study completion dates: Dec 2015 to Dec 2018v19
NotablePrimary and study completion dates: Dec 2014 to Dec 2015v18
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NotablePrimary completion date: Dec 2013 to Dec 2014v16
NotablePrimary completion date: Jul 2012 to Dec 2013
Study completion date: Oct 2013 to Dec 2014
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MinorPrimary completion date: Jul 2012
Study completion date: Oct 2012 to Oct 2013
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MinorStudy completion date: Oct 2011 to Oct 2012v10
MinorStudy completion date: Oct 2010 to Oct 2011v9
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MinorStudy completion date: Oct 2009 to Oct 2010v7
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NotableEnrollment target: 10 to 30
Study completion date: Oct 2008 to Oct 2009
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MinorStudy completion date: Oct 2006 to Oct 2008v2
Study First Submitted
Notable: the trial’s plan changed such as a big move in its timeline or size, a new primary endpoint, sponsor or phase, or recruiting opened or resumed.
Minor: routine progress and housekeeping, such as sites added or enrollment closed.
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are isolated from the early human embryo and have the capability to proliferate indefinitely in culture and to develop into nearly every cell of the human body. hESC are important for studying developmental biology and for cell replacement therapies for the treatment of degenerative human diseases. An additional use for embryonic stem cells would be for the in vitro study of diseases. hESC lines derived from embryos diagnosed as abnormal by PGD testing would afford such models for study. Because embryos tested by PGD and found to be abnormal would only under rare circumstances be transferred to the uterus of a woman (and in most cases would be discarded), the derivation of new hESC lines from these embryos would provide a viable less ethically-objectionable source of cells with which to study the mechanisms of differentiation and developmental biology.