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A Nearly Three-Decade-Long Stem Cell Tale in California

A Nearly Three-Decade-Long Stem Cell Tale in California

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Sep 28, 2016
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Kris Boesen, patient in Asterias trial -- photo from CIRM

One could say that the latest news involving human embryonic stem cell research and the California stem cell agency stretches back nearly 27 years. 


It was then -- in 1990 -- that Geron, Inc., was incorporated by Michael West who began what eventually turned into a quest for a stem cell therapy for…

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