New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Borrowing $270 Million for Stem-Cell Research
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The move was an end to a two-year journey that was as much about politics as it was about science.
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SAN DIEGO - California voters resoundingly approved a measure to spend $3 billion in public money for embryonic stem cell research, opening the door for the most aggressive push yet into the controversial science.
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An appeals court upholds the state's $3 billion stem-cell research effort. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will distribute $80 million in grants this month. In Bodyhack.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger takes a political risk and endorses a $3 billion California bond measure that would fund embryonic stem-cell research.
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The Illinois Senate voted Friday to spend state tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research, despite objections from those who argue the research destroys human life.
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The Illinois Senate voted Friday to spend state tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research, despite objections from those who argue the research destroys human life
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Californians voted Tuesday to spend &#36;3 billion on stem cell research, putting the state on the cutting edge of a field questioned by conservatives and the Bush administration. Arizonans approved a crackdown on illegal immigrants, and 11 states from Georgia to Oregon adopted bans on same-sex marriage.
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As other states line up to invest billions of dollars in stem cell research, state lawmakers vowed Tuesday to act quickly on legislation that would enable Connecticut to join them.
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Governor Deval Patrick provided a blueprint yesterday for his proposed $1 billion investment in biotechnology, introducing sweeping legislation that would finance cutting-edge research, create the nation's largest stem cell bank, and provide expanded tax credits to life science companies.
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates has contributed $400,000 to the campaign to support a California initiative that would provide the state with nearly $3 billion in funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports (Elias, AP
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The campaign committee that spent &#36;35 million last year backing California's novel &#36;3 billion stem cell initiative plans to use its fund-raising prowess to fight a federal bill seeking to ban all forms of human cloning.
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The European Union will continue financing human stem cell research, ministers from the bloc's 25 member states decided Monday, overcoming opposition from a group of mostly Catholic countries.
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Democratic lawmakers proposed a &#36;1 billion stem cell research initiative on Sunday, saying New York could be left behind after California voters approved &#36;3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research.
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California, in an act of rebellion against the White House, may be on the verge of spending $300 million a year in each of the next 10 years on stem cell research.
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California scientists and business boosters, who united for the first 10 months of the year to persuade voters to approve spending $3 billion on stem cell research, now are breaking rank as they foment plans for getting some of that money.
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Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday he planned to recommend that lawmakers spend state money for stem cell research, but only the kind that doesn't require the destruction of embryos.
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New Jersey governor plans to resign Nov. 15, but also hopes to push ahead on tax reform and stem-cell study. By Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.