High hopes that hefty investments will lead to cures and profits
By Roland Jones
Wall Street reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 6:48 a.m. ET Feb. 9, 2005
[Excerpt]
With millions of dollars in stem cell research grants soon to be up for grabs, California is starting to look a lot like El Dorado for medical researchers and investors. And now a handful of other states, including New Jersey, Wisconsin and New York, are racing to catch up with the Golden State, mindful of the health and economic benefits that stem cell funding could bring.
"Everyone’s rushing to put together a stem cell program,” says Andrew Cohn, a spokesperson for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Alumni Research Foundation, which holds the patents for the university’s stem cell discoveries. “People recognize that this field of study has incredible potential, not only to cure disease, but also as an economic tool.”
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which btw benifits mostly HETEROSEXUALS because most + people are HETEROSEXUALS like us. But I know that fact is ignored by so many rightwingers so I won't waste much time on that tonight.


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