by Laya Kiani | Aug 15, 2024
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2017, total global spending on health reached US$7.8 trillion and, by 2020, this figure had leapt to $9 trillion as governments raced to contain the first wave of COVID-19. The WHO estimates that worldwide spending...
by Cal Strode | Mar 10, 2022
“It’s the need to value balance and respect for life with the promise of science,” former U.S. President George W. Bush argued when announcing his controversial policy blocking federal funding for embryonic stem cell research at a 2001 press conference. The ban acted...
by Lisa Willemse | Dec 6, 2013
> To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them We know this famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s...
by Nick Dragojlovic | Dec 2, 2013
> As the expiration of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (CIRM) funding approaches, the fate of CIRM after 2017 is top of mind for stem cell researchers in the state. While the agency’s leadership appears to be leaning towards some form of...
by Nick Dragojlovic | Feb 20, 2013
– The regenerative medicine community greeted last month’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the legality of the Obama Administration’s stem cell policy with relief. The court found that federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is...
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