Posted on 08/09/2002 7:37:17 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Going where the federal government has stepped aside, Intel Chairman Andy Grove has pledged $5 million to help launch a new embryonic stem-cell program at the University of California-San Francisco.
The money, the first step toward an ambitious $20 million fundraising goal for the university, will offer scientists unfettered access to this promising field of investigation -- and give UCSF's stem-cell programs a competitive boost in the hottest new field in biomedicine.
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