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Stem Cell Agency Makes Historic Grant

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For the first time, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has approved a grant for a human clinical trial using embryonic stem cells. The vote to approve the $25 million award represents the institute's decision to move some funding from basic science to research aimed at getting treatments to market.

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