CA Stem Cell Initiative: It's working

An editorial suggests that because of California’s stem cell research program, the United States could still be a world leader in the field. Prominent researchers continue to flock to California. Confidence in the endeavor is so high that grants and gifts from private sources to California researchers have totaled more than $200 million so far. […]

An editorial suggests that because of California's stem cell research program, the United States could still be a world leader in the field. Zach_hall

Prominent researchers continue to flock to California. Confidence in the endeavor is so high that grants and gifts from private sources to California researchers have totaled more than $200 million so far. The feeble lawsuit challenging the program's legality should be history before June. And regulations are in place to govern the state agency in charge of distributing the $3 billion in grants, the first of which should be awarded in a matter of weeks.

But he agency still lacks public trust because of a lack of transparency in its policies. The editorialists hope that will change when Zach Hall leaves his office of president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in mid 2007.

State's stem cell initiative already paying big dividends [The Mercury News]