Gates, others lead California effort for stem cell research
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Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California&#39;s Nov. 2 ballot to devote $3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in
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A scientific revolution of sorts is underway, with California taking a giant lead in the race to see which states become centers for basic research using human embryonic stem cells.
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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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Leaders of national embryonic stem cell banks in the United States and the United Kingdom pledged Monday to work together to promote research, create international standards and more efficiently distribute each other's cells.
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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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Christopher Reeve's death Sunday deprives stem-cell research advocates of one of their most effective champions. But the wheels he help put in motion will continue turning, they promise.
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Scientists around the country who study embryonic stem cells may be mourning four more years of President Bush&#39;s restrictive funding policy, but California scientists are throwing a party, and top researchers in less-funded states are hoping for
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine doesn't have a home, any money, or even a single employee, but the head of the new state agency expects to be awarding its first grants for stem cell research by May.
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The San Diego biotechnology industry group Biocom announced it is endorsing a bond initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot that would make $3 billion available for embryonic stem cell research in California.
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HUSH-HUSH: California's new stem cell agency isn't telling the public much about how it's being organized or where it will ultimately spend &#36;3 billion in taxpayer money.
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Californians have come down on the side of stem cell research by passing a $3 billion bond measure designed to put the state on the cutting edge of such science.
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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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Californians approved a groundbreaking measure allowing around three billion dollars in state funds to be used for embryonic stem cell research, early figures showed.
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A proposal to spend &#36;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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When Californians go to the polls, they won't simply be choosing a US president, they may also redraw the scientific map and make their state a global hub of embryonic stem cell research.
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Emboldened by the success of a stem cell ballot initiative in California last week, two scientists who have long pushed for an ambitious research center for the biotechnology
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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.