MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2006--Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced today the launch of a new immortalized human cell line available through ATCC(R) (American Type Culture Collection). The new line, T HESC, is a human endometrium fibroblast-like cell line immortalized with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT). Telomerase is an enzyme shown to confer unlimited replicative capacity to normal cells without causing deregulation of normal growth control. The endometrial cells used to produce the T HESC line were obtained from an endometrial myoma.
