California&#39;s Stem Cell Follies
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On Wall Street, investment bankers disdainfully refer to two types of investors, &quot;smart money&quot; and &quot;dumb money.&quot; In their snooty lexicon, smart money belongs to elite investors that run hedge funds and venture capital catering to the wealthy.
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Some of the world&#39;s top scientists, ethicists and policy experts on stem cell research gathered yesterday at the Salk Institute in La Jolla to speak about both the promise and ethical perils tied to the young field.
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Tuesday's announcement that scientists had found a noncontroversial way to make cells equivalent to human embryonic stem cells did not just change the scientific and ethical landscape. It generated economic and geopolitical tremors through California, New York and about half a dozen other states...
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.
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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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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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California voters appeared to be strongly endorsing stem cell research Tuesday night, as exit polls and early returns suggested an easy win for Proposition 71.
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LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO  - A proposal to spend  $3 billion in California state funds on stem-cell research is  likely to attract scientists and create jobs, but some critics  question whether the investment will pay off.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued a plan today for how it would spend the $3 billion assigned by the stateÂs voters to finance stem cell research.
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British scientists are reportedly working on how they can use stem cells to treat cirrhosis of the liver. A team of researchers at London&#39;s Hammersmith Hospital are testing a process which uses the patient&#39;s
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More Americans know about stem cell research, and more approve of it this year than in 2001, according to a new Harris Poll. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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10/19/04- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his political career at risk. He endorsed a 3-billion-dollar bond measure that would fund human embryonic stem cell research.
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The prospect of using human embryonic stem cells to treat disease appears a small step closer as the result of two new experiments with the cells, which are mired in political controversy because they are derived from human embryos.
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California's stem cell agency on Friday doled out nearly $45 million in research grants to about 20 state universities and nonprofit research laboratories, far exceeding the federal government's spending on the controversial work.
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Medical ethicists are concerned that the $3 billion that California approved for embryonic stem cell research could become a bonanza for private profiteers.
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Californians voted by a wide margin last month to pass a landmark &#36;3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research. That may have been the easy part.