The law was designed to push federally financed research from the university laboratory into the marketplace.
Too often, this has been the stumbling block in turning observations in the laboratory into a workable therapy.
Although Goldhaber retired in 1985, he continued his research at the laboratory into the early 21st century.
Made in slipware in the Potteries, 170 of these vessels, stacked on top of each other, turned the Oxford laboratory into a virtual penicillin factory.
Scientists have already discovered ways of inducing mouse and human embryonic stem cells to convert in the laboratory into brain, liver, pancreatic and other types of body cell.
Marsha S. Ivins, the shuttle crew member who had maneuvered the laboratory into place on Saturday, promised to bring the signed sheet back to Cape Canaveral for display.
Another was Molecular Gastronomy by Hervé This (Columbia University Press), which brings the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen.
Another is to better move discoveries from the laboratory into commerce, in part by having companies get more involved with universities.
Its first breakthrough came in 2006, when it announced the successful transplant of new bladders grown from stem cells in the laboratory into seven patients.
Adult stem cells, on the other hand, might be "harvested" from patients themselves and transformed in the laboratory into other, badly-needed cellular substitutes.
Charles Mérieux, a virologist whose visionary understanding of mass vaccine cultivation and disease-fighting logistics turned a relatively modest family microbiology laboratory into an international engine for public health, died Saturday in Lyon, France, his hometown.
