Stem cell research avoids the knife in California
A court injunction barring federal funds from being used on stem cell research could catapult California back into the leading edge of research.
That’s because state voters established their own stem cell research fund in 2004 with the passage of proposition 71.
About 35 percent of the $200 million in federal funds set aside for stem cell research grants this year haven’t yet been awarded and are now in legal limbo (more…)