Article: STATE WILL AID STEM-CELL INSTITUTE RESEARCH FACILITY WILL BE BUILT AT UW-MADISON.(FRONT)

Byline: Ron Seely Wisconsin State Journal

Gov. Jim Doyle and UW-Madison administrators Wednesday escalated Wisconsin's race with California for stem-cell supremacy.

They said state and private dollars will be used to build a $375 million institute on campus to centralize research aimed at curing diseases such as Alzheimer's and diabetes.

Wisconsin fired its salvo back at California two weeks after voters there approved pumping $3 billion into research on human embryonic stem cells, the "blank slate" cells scientists believe can be guided to grow into replacement cells for diseased tissues.

Researchers at UW-Madison have made the ...

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