"We want to learn more about these cells, and we want to establish more cell lines.
More cell places have become available since then but, Hardwick warned, there will be further finanical pressures.
Also, more cell lines means more assurance that there will not be flaws in the number or shape of chromosomes.
And if users in countries with more cell phones can be a guide, the number of people getting around with wearable phones will continue to go up.
At lunch on a weekday, the local Chinese and Vietnamese customers are joined by courthouse regulars and possibly more cell phones than at a convention of movie executives.
A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded last month that more cell lines were needed to fulfill the promise of regenerative therapies.
Needless to say, the prisoners, who now get more cell time and no face time with their families, are less enthusiastic.
It said it would add more cell towers and connect them to faster fiber optic lines.
Animals with more cell types that evolved later also evolved more microRNAs.
The growing popularity of smart phones, in particular, is driving demand for more cell sites.
U.S. carriers are racing to build more cell towers in major metropolitan areas.
