State and national research policies governing human embryonic stem cell science are affecting the career plans of scientists in this exciting but controversial field.
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The author acknowledges the financial support of the Policy Research Institute for the Region at Princeton University, the National Science Foundation (through a Graduate Research Fellowship) and Princeton University. He thanks Lee Silver and Harold Shapiro for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, Ed Freeland and James Chu for assistance on the design and implementation of the survey, Jesse Rothstein and Gerard van den Berg for assistance with the statistical analysis, Pete Farnham, Martin Frank and Nancy Witty. This project was approved by the Princeton University Institutional Review Panel for Human Subjects Research.
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Levine, A. Research policy and the mobility of US stem cell scientists. Nat Biotechnol 24, 865–866 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0706-865
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