Proposition 71 Passed California voters backed this initiative to give $3 Billion (over ten years) to fund Embyonic Stem Cell research.
"This is going to be the stem cell center of the world, not just the country," said Evan Snyder, director of the program in stem cell biology at the Burnham Institute in San Diego.
Other States will copy Proposition 71 Stem cell scientists in California were almost giddy Wednesday with anticipation that talented young scientists and enterprising companies would move here.
Advanced Cell Technology, a perennially cash-starved Massachusetts company that has been trying to use embryonic stem cells, plans to set up a branch in California, in part to tap into the money. The company's chief executive, Michael D. West, has already moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.
And scientists elsewhere, fearing a brain drain, are expected to push their own states to increase financial support.
"We here in Massachusetts are not going to take this lying down," said George Daley, an associate professor at Children's Hospital in Boston and at Harvard University. "We're going to have to work extra hard to make sure we don't lose our best junior scientists to California."
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"There is no creator" - the Dalai Lama. These are words of common sense, and it tells me that "spirituality" has nothing in particular to do with a belief in the supernatural. But then, those of us who grew up in the seventies watching "Kung Fu" already knew that being a vegan, atheist who follows the path of the buddha can reach enlightenment.
All kidding aside, what does a vegetarian atheist have to say? Stick around and you'll find out! Politically I'm rather liberal, but I do like to listen to staunch conservative talk show host Michael (the 'Whiner') Savage so I'll probably be mentioning him from time to time in my weblogs. So for now, how about some talk of broccoli, carrots and peas? Recipe's anyone??
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"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
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"Maybe happiness is a fragment of existence, but with better packaging."
