Stem Cell Research

Imagine the controversy if an American President publicly avowed funding a major stem cell production facility to stimulate economic recovery.  That, however, is a strategy British Conservative Party Prime Minister David Cameron has put forward with £30m in funding (£10 from the government and £10m each from the EU and private pharms) to build a stem cell therapy center in southeast England.  Plans are for it to open in April 2012.  The director of innovation at the Technology Strategy Board says “It will have a test manufacturing facility to help labs convert a couple of grams of potentially life-saving cells into kilos of the stuff that can be sold commercially.” MORE

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