Word: celling
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...Allston Science Complex is the first component of Harvard's ambitious 50-year plan to construct a campus across the river and was intended to serve as a hub for stem cell research and interdisciplinary science. Faust's letter wrote that the delay in construction would "in no way slow Harvard's significant momentum in the life sciences...
Even before Thursday's announcement that the slowdown would soon become a halt, construction delays had created difficulties for some Harvard scientists, as it became clear that promised space in Allston would not be ready on schedule. In particular, stem cell researchers who had planned on moving into the Allston Science Complex were instead relocated to the Sherman-Fairchild building in Cambridge, displacing Molecular and Cellular Biology faculty and causing tensions with administrators...
...addition, the availability of federal funding sources will permit researchers to work with new stem cell sources without relying on private funding, according to Colen...
...This will provide another avenue of funding and will bring more people and other institutions into the field,” Colen said. “That will be encouraging to some of the best young scientists who may have thought it was too risky to go into stem cell work...
Daley said he was not surprised that the Harvard lines were part of the first group to receive approval for funding, since he and other faculty members in the Harvard Stem Cell Institute contributed to the drafting of the Obama administration’s guidelines regarding stem cell research...