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Stem cells: Hope on the line

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A decade ago, voters in California changed the biomedical research landscape by directly funding embryonic stem-cell research. Now the organization they created needs a hit to survive.

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  • 11 July 2014

    The time line in this feature wrongly identified Alan Trounson as the first president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He was, in fact, the second — he succeeded Zach Hall. This has now been corrected.

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