Blunt gives up life sciences funding (Stem Cell Story)

The St. Louis Post-Disgrace ^ | 03/09/2007 | Matt Franck

[Quick or Dead]

JEFFERSON CITY — A $350 million spending plan that Gov. Matt Blunt originally trumpeted as a godsend for Missouri's life sciences industry was stripped on Thursday of anything relating to that research.

One of those projects would have spent $5.5-million project to help young biotechnology companies build out costly wet lab space in Cortex, a biotech business corridor in midtown St. Louis.

The University of Missouri-Columbia was hit hardest by the new plan, losing an $85 million research center that had once been touted as the centerpiece of Blunt's spending plan. Instead, Blunt is now requesting $31 million to reconstruct the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on the campus.

Nodler said the new plan should have broader support, in part, because it spreads spending projects more widely across the state. He also believes the concerns of embryonic stem cell research opponents have been satisfied.

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One of those projects would have spent $5.5-million project to help young biotechnology companies build out costly wet lab space in Cortex, a biotech business corridor in midtown St. Louis.

Is it just me, or is "wet lab" a rather sinister term? It reminds me of another well known phrase from the world of Cold War spies: wet work. Did the abortionists employ this phrase on purpose?