1.   Two circular pieces of mucosa were used from the fundus of the gall bladder for harvesting the cells.

2.   And as companies venture into the realm of harvesting cells from a patient to grow customized tissues or organs, he said, business strategies will also evolve.

3.   Antibody-producing cells could be harvested easily from the spleens of mice that had been exposed to a known protein.

4.   Also, scientists in Australia, Israel, and Singapore succeeded last year in harvesting the cells.

5.   But she said medical cloning research would actually hurt spinal cord injury victims in the long run if embryos were discarded after cells were harvested.

6.   Crossing an explosive ethical boundary, Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester has started an unprecedented program to clone and harvest human cells, the company president said Thursday.

7.   However, researchers in a fertility clinic in Virginia have created embryos to harvest cells.

8.   Meanwhile, Missy, whose cells were harvested several years ago, remains carefree.

9.   Private laboratories are already creating embryos for the purpose of harvesting their cells to fight disease.

10.   But in previous research the cells were harvested from embryos, a technique that set off a storm of ethical objections.