stem cell research

The $3 billion California stem cell agency, which is currently scheduled to go out of business in a few years, hopes to come up with a detailed plan by this fall for a novel public-private arrangement that would extend its life. The rough outlines o...

During the past couple of years, the California stem cell agency has vastly improved the way it budgets the relatively tiny amount it spends on operational expenses. At one point a few years back, its operational budget was often all but incoherent ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown and a flying squad of business types visited China last week, beating the drum for the Golden State in an effort to raise billions of dollars in investments. Some 90 persons were involved in the governor's deleg...

The stock price of StemCells, Inc., price today jumped as much as 9 percent after the company disclosed it had finally concluded an agreement with the California stem cell agency for a $19.3 million forgivable loan for research twice rejected by the ag...

Of all California's newspapers, The Sacramento Bee, the only daily paper in the state capital, has long been the most critical – editorially – of the Golden State's $3 billion stem cell research agency. Today, however, the newspaper gave a modes...

When does a financially struggling biotech company turn down a $20 million “forgivable loan?” When it is StemCells, Inc., of Newark, Ca., and the cash is being offered by the $3 billion California stem cell agency. The research program has hande...

The California Stem Cell Report will go dark for a couple of weeks or so as we make our way across the bounding main to Mexico. As many of you know, yours truly lives on a sailboat (15 years come June 1) that shuttles about the Pacific south of the Am...

California's $3 billion stem cell agency has performed a well-done makeover on its most important public face – its web site, which is chock-a-block full of useful information for researchers and the unwashed alike. At cirm.ca.gov, one can fi...

Directors of the California stem cell agency will meet March 19 in Burlingame to complete action on their response to blue-ribbon recommendations for sweeping changes at the eight-year-old research enterprise. CIRM Chairman J.T. Thomas last week tol...

The $3 billion California stem cell agency hit it big in San Diego today, finally scoring an editorial that said “arguably” the agency's largess has made the state “the world leader in medical research.” The San Diego U-T, the largest circul...