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...first human stem cells from in vitro embryos. But in February, South Korean researchers stunned the scientific world by successfully harvesting stem cells from cloned human embryos--considered the most promising avenue for treating disease. A prestigious American investigator moved to Britain, where the research is encouraged. Now Stanford and Harvard hope to raise at least $100 million each for new stem-cell institutes. The universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota are expanding their labs, and in March an anonymous donor gave $25 million to the University of Texas to boost its Houston program...
...state bonds over 10 years. The California funds would dwarf federal grants, which have stalled at about $17 million a year for human embryonic research since Bush restricted funding to a few dozen pre-existing stem-cell lines. Only 19 of those turned out to be available. Says Stanford Nobel prizewinner Paul Berg: "California is paving the way for a revolt in a lot of other states...
...being handled virtually ensures that there will be no quick reward. The stock is as likely to fall as to fly on the first day of trading. The filing reveals a reluctance to go public, even though the two founders, former Stanford computer-science graduate students who together will own about 32% of the company's shares, could emerge worth some $4 billion each. In a folksy manifesto that's part of the filing, the founders liken themselves, a tad arrogantly, to Warren Buffett, saying they will take risks as though Google were a private company and will offer...
...rate card includes laudatory quotes about the website from various college newspapers, including The Stanford Daily, The Daily Pennsylvanian and The Harvard Independent...
...Black and White have also beaten No. 3 Georgetown and No. 5 Stanford this season, and raced against the second varsity heavyweights from Radcliffe and BU last weekend in preparation...