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Popular Culture Representations of Science: Views from the Canadian Stem Cell Research Community

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Canada’s Stem Cell Network (SCN) for funding and support for this initiative, the University of Alberta’s Health Law Institute for administrative support, Robyn Hyde-Lay and Christen Rachul for their helpful comments on our survey instrument, and the SCN members who participated in this research.

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    Timothy Caulfield & Amy Zarzeczny

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Caulfield, T., Zarzeczny, A. Popular Culture Representations of Science: Views from the Canadian Stem Cell Research Community. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 6, 337–339 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-010-9164-z

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