{"id":22,"date":"2004-11-05T01:26:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T01:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-11-05T01:26:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T01:26:42","slug":"california-stem-cell-research-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"California Stem Cell Research initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the rest of the US stem-cell researchers are weighing up the costs (and funding issues) of another 4 years of Dubya. However, California has neatly sidestepped these issues by finding a way to supplant it&#8217;s stem cell research initiatives with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curesforcalifornia.com\/\">state funds.<\/a> <b>Cunning!<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the Golden State, stem cell researchers will see a windfall of $3 billion over the next 10 years, averaging about $300 million a year, thanks to the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. It shouldn&#8217;t be difficult to entice the best minds in the country to move to a place where their work is fully supported by a state known for its mild climate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without wanting to get into the complexitiies of the ethical and legal debate surrounding this kind of research I&#8217;ll be interested to discover the results this promising initiative produces. Whether we morally agree with stem-cell research or not it has the potential to have a major impact on the treatment of a wide range of illnesses, especially degenerative neurological conditions such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchange.com\/stemcells.htm\">alzheimers and parkinsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the rest of the US stem-cell researchers are weighing up the costs (and funding issues) of another 4 years of Dubya. However, California has neatly sidestepped these issues by finding a way to supplant it&#8217;s stem cell research initiatives with state funds. Cunning! In the Golden State, stem cell researchers will see a windfall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}