11.   There are other companies working on a variety of cell therapies for diabetes.

12.   Critics say universal treatments can only come from research on different embryos and that it could take hundreds of cell lines to come up with one cell therapy.

13.   The FDA has long required special safety testing of cell therapies that use animal products to ensure no animal diseases are transmitted to people.

14.   This can be done in the lab, similar to cell therapy, or by injecting the good genes into the body.

15.   Within the pharmaceutical sector, Novartis will have a leading edge in biotechnology and other emerging technologies like cell therapy, as well as more traditional drugs.