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WOULD DELAY NEEDED THERAPIES, BOARD INSISTS
The board overseeing California's new $3 billion stem-cell institute on Monday denounced a bill in the Legislature intended to strengthen state oversight of the program, claiming the measure would cripple its research and its ability to help the sick.
According to a resolution hashed out during the board's meeting in San Jose, the bill ``will make it extremely difficult if not impossible for scientists to do their jobs and it will delay critically needed medical therapies.''
The bill, SCA 13, is designed to toughen public oversight of the institute, which was created by Proposition 71 last year. The bill is being pushed primarily by Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, as a constitutional amendment that would have to be approved by voters if passed by the Legislature.
Ortiz called the board's criticism of her misplaced and unhelpful.
``Rather than joining me and trying to find a way to put sound accountability measures into the law,'' she said, ``they have simply attempted to create the fear that accountability is equal to opposition.''
Ortiz added that time is...
The board overseeing California's new $3 billion stem-cell institute on Monday denounced a bill in the Legislature intended to strengthen state oversight of the program, claiming the measure would cripple its research and its ability to help the sick.
According to a resolution hashed out during the board's meeting in San Jose, the bill ``will make it extremely difficult if not impossible for scientists to do their jobs and it will delay critically needed medical therapies.''
The bill, SCA 13, is designed to toughen public oversight of the institute, which was created by Proposition 71 last year. The bill is being pushed primarily by Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, as a constitutional amendment that would have to be approved by voters if passed by the Legislature.
Ortiz called the board's criticism of her misplaced and unhelpful.
``Rather than joining me and trying to find a way to put sound accountability measures into the law,'' she said, ``they have simply attempted to create the fear that accountability is equal to opposition.''
Ortiz added that time is...