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Article: Stem cell Science: hospitals look to research possibilities.
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 14, 2005
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Despite extensive debate about stem cells and their use, there has been considerable confusion about what they are exactly, and what they do.
But following California's approval of billions of dollars in state spending on stem cell research via Proposition 71 in the fall election, researchers, including those at UC Irvine, are primed to boost efforts to develop cures based on this misunderstood science.
Stem cells are the building blocks of tissues and organs in the body. The unspecified cells can become any tissue, muscle, organ or bone in the body, given the right conditions. Stem cells can be frozen and, once thawed, will continue to renew themselves. ...