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Stem cells: The 3-billion-dollar question

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Can a state do what a country cannot, and transform the way stem-cell research is funded? Erika Check Hayden reports on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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Check Hayden, E. Stem cells: The 3-billion-dollar question. Nature 453, 18–21 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453018a

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