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Not to apologize for Los Angeles officials, who truly screwed up by giving the state an excuse to reject L.A. as the headquarters for a stem cell institute that will distribute $3 billion in taxpayer funds, but the location doesn't matter all that much anyway. Now that the competition is over and San Francisco has won, what's important to local biotech researchers is that the money _ to be handed out over the next decade for research on such devastating diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's _ is distributed using a fair, open and democratic process.
Unfortunately, that may not happen. Proposition 71, the ballot measure that established the state's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, guarantees little public scrutiny.
L.A. lost its chance to host the institute, despite including such perks as access to a private jet, because city officials seem to have forgotten to read the stem cell agency's list of basic requirements, like having offices on no more than two floors.
Well, there's a good chance the fix was in anyway _ the agency's new San Francisco headquarters just happens...
Unfortunately, that may not happen. Proposition 71, the ballot measure that established the state's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, guarantees little public scrutiny.
L.A. lost its chance to host the institute, despite including such perks as access to a private jet, because city officials seem to have forgotten to read the stem cell agency's list of basic requirements, like having offices on no more than two floors.
Well, there's a good chance the fix was in anyway _ the agency's new San Francisco headquarters just happens...