Looking Back at Geron and CIRM: How the Allure of a Scientific Breakthrough Led to Dubious Practices

Times and people have changed, however, since 2011 at the $12 billion state stem cell agency.

Editor’s Note: Here is a bit of history involving Geron and the California stem cell agency. It can be found only on the California Stem Cell Report, which reported extensively about Geron’s relationship with the agency.  

The history of Geron and the California stem cell agency involved much more than the usual routine approval of a multimillion-dollar …