By Jennifer LahlMy colleague, Evan Rosa, has a great piece here on the recent approval of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to award $271 million dollars in facilities grants to 12 academic and research institutions. 800,000 square feet of buildings to be erected by 2010 for . . . . Continue Reading »
By Jennifer LahlMy colleague, Evan Rosa, has a great piece here on the recent approval of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to award $271 million dollars in facilities grants to 12 academic and research institutions. 800,000 square feet of buildings to be erected by 2010 for . . . . Continue Reading »
When the creators of Proposition 71 spent tens of millions buying a constitutional amendment in California to permit human cloning research, they promised CURES! CURES! CURES! And what are people spending hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money on? EXPENSIVE FANCY BUILDINGS! EXPENSIVE . . . . Continue Reading »
The deconstruction of the CIRM, enacted by California, is earnestly to be wished. That won’t happen, but at the very least, given its many troubles, a good reorganization is needed. That is apparently the idea behind a bill in California. From the story in Entrepreneur.Com (no link):California . . . . Continue Reading »
California is in the midst of a financial meltdown. Red ink is spilling down the stairs of the Capitol. But of course, none of this affects the fiefdom that is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created by Proposition 71. As I wrote during the campaign, under its terms half the state . . . . Continue Reading »
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) would be laughable if it weren’t so expensive and engaged in funding immoral research with borrowed money that I and every other Californian will have to pay back. The latest shinanigan was exposed by the Foundation for Taxpayer and . . . . Continue Reading »
Proposition 71 established a closed doors grant approval process, in which the CIRM doles out hundreds of millions of borrowed taxpayers dollars to private industry and public entities to conduct human cloning and embryonic stem cell (and related) research. All has not gone well so far, with key . . . . Continue Reading »
Another big resignation at the CIRM. This time, the head science officer. From the story:The top scientific officer at California’s stem cell agency has resigned, effective Oct. 31. Arlene Chiu, interim chief scientific officer since April, made the announcement in a letter sent earlier this . . . . Continue Reading »
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