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Friday, November 6, 2009Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants—$230 million to 14 teams—intended to speed stem cell therapies to patients.
Author: Jocelyn Kaiser
Original article from http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5954/780-a?rss=1
Author: Jocelyn Kaiser
Original article from http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5954/780-a?rss=1
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