California Pushes Stem Cell Plan as UN Weighs Ban
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California is moving quickly to  launch a $3 billion stem cell research program approved by  voters this month even as the United States is leading a  campaign at the United Nations to ban all cloning of human  embryos, including for stem cell studies.
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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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California's stem-cell institute approved nearly $45 million in research grants to about 20 universities and other research laboratories on Friday as it awaits a state appeals court decision on whether the agency is unconstitutional.
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Voters in Switzerland have backed a new law permitting research on stem cells from human embryos. The Catholic Church and the influential Green Party had opposed the legislation, saying it involved taking human lives.
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Doling out nearly $45 million in research grants to 20 state universities and nonprofit labs, California becomes the nation's biggest financial backer of human embryonic stem-cell research. By the Associated Press.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued a plan for how it would spend the $3 billion assigned by the stateÂs voters to finance stem cell research.
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California&#39;s controversial stem cell research ballot measure appears to be gaining favor, according to a poll that found 54 percent of likely voters approve it.
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The United Nations has abandoned efforts to devise a global treaty banning the cloning of human beings. While there was near universal support to ban reproductive cloning of babies, the international community
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The campaign committee that spent &#36;35 million last year backing California's novel &#36;3 billion stem cell initiative plans to use its fund-raising prowess to fight a federal bill seeking to ban all forms of human cloning.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- Two years after California voters passed a landmark $3 billion bond measure for stem cell research, not a single bond has been sold and not a penny of bond money has been spent. The fund is caught up in court challenges.
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A 21st-century gold rush is on in California after the voters approved &#36;3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research.
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Britain&#39;s leading scientific institution said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty banning human cloning.
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Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot to devote $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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Aiming to circumvent President Bush's limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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While the federal government ponders the ethical implications of therapeutic cloning, California is blazing a trail to the future.
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SAN FRANCISCO California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed a three (b) billion-dollar bond measure that would fund human embryonic stem cell research.