California company sees fertile ground in stem cells
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A small California company set up by an unnamed investor and a top fertility doctor burst into the stem cell field on Thursday with a report that it is the first lab to clone human embryos and prove it.
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Rarely do the worlds of stem-cell research and Native American artifacts collide. But Dr. Michael D. West, the scientist behind Advanced Cell Technology Inc. of Worcester, has made it happen.
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A major expansion is announced for a biotech company based at a former slate quarry.
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Tuesday&#39;s vote by Californians to spend $3 billion on human embryonic stem cell research could speed progress on the promising but controversial field and make the state the epicenter of such research.
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Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of recent advances that could speed development of stem cell-based treatments for a variety of diseases.
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Wealthy real estate developer  Robert Klein, the leader of the California campaign to spend $3  billion of state money for stem cell research, appeared on  Tuesday to have secured the top job to oversee the scientific  program.
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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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In an innovative move, a biotech company has found a new way of making stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates.
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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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A controversial California ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research with &#36;3 billion in state money was headed for a resounding victory on Wednesday, initial returns showed.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot to devote &#36;3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in what would be the biggest-ever state-supported scientific research program in the country.
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Researchers at a U.S. company trying  to push the margins of stem cell research said on Friday they  had grown human embryonic stem cells using a non-controversial  method that did not harm the embryos.
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Yesterday, a biotech company in Australia announced they would be sharing their line of embryonic stem cells to an &quot;open source&quot; research community -- for the good of mankind, at no cost.
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Stem cells have become famous for their ability to heal, spurring hopes that they might one day cure Parkinson&#39;s disease, spinal cord injuries, and a wide variety of ailments.
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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Scientists develop a method of routinely growing stem cells in conditions similar to the human body.