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8 Years Later, Is California's Stem Cell Agency Still Relevant?

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 03.19.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- The creation of California's stem cell agency in 2004 was greeted by scientists and patients as a turning point in a field mired in deb...

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Overturn Dickey-Wicker Abomination, or Forget Stem Cell Cures for a Generation

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cirm, Stem Cell Research, Barack Obama, Dickey Amendment, Politics News
Don C. Reed

Future generations will look back upon us, and wonder how we could have been so stupid--to have the tools of cure in our hands, and put them aside.

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The International Society of Stem Cell Researchers Comes to Town

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don C. Reed

In America alone, an estimated one hundred million people suffer chronic disease or disability. What politician could afford to ignore a constituency like that?

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The California Stem Cell Program: It Works, Why Mess With It?

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Bill 1064, Cirm, California, Stem Cells, Catriona Jamieson, Leukemia, UC San Diego, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Don C. Reed

Having brought in roughly one billion dollars in new money for the state, the California stem cell program is already a spectacular success. But there are other, more personal ways to judge it.

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Rush Limbaugh and the California Stem Cell Program

Don C. Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stem Cell Research, California Stem Cell Program, Rush Limbaugh, Embryonic, Michael J. Fox, Cirm, Technology News
Don C. Reed

These are not statistics. They are our loved ones, and politics must not block research which might heal or alleviate their suffering.

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