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To keep researchers from being lured away, other funding efforts are in the works.
As California moves quickly toward setting up a $3-billion embryonic stem cell research agency, other states are scrambling to prevent their top researchers from being raided.
The lure is clear: $300 million a year for embryonic stem cell research in California for the next decade, more than 10 times the yearly federal funding available and free of the Bush administration's tight restrictions on what research can be conducted with federal money.
"Everyone I talk to wants to move to California," said Kevin Wilson, director of public policy for the American Society of Cell Biologists. Wilson, only half jokingly, suggested "staking out the airports" to get a preview of which top researchers outside the state are thinking of relocating.
A few states have announced or plan soon to announce new funding for stem cell research, and others are considering legislation that endorses the research, moves influenced at least in part by the California initiative.
Embryonic stem cells can become cells of any type, so many scientists believe...
As California moves quickly toward setting up a $3-billion embryonic stem cell research agency, other states are scrambling to prevent their top researchers from being raided.
The lure is clear: $300 million a year for embryonic stem cell research in California for the next decade, more than 10 times the yearly federal funding available and free of the Bush administration's tight restrictions on what research can be conducted with federal money.
"Everyone I talk to wants to move to California," said Kevin Wilson, director of public policy for the American Society of Cell Biologists. Wilson, only half jokingly, suggested "staking out the airports" to get a preview of which top researchers outside the state are thinking of relocating.
A few states have announced or plan soon to announce new funding for stem cell research, and others are considering legislation that endorses the research, moves influenced at least in part by the California initiative.
Embryonic stem cells can become cells of any type, so many scientists believe...
