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Nature 420, 721 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420721a

Stanford announces private plan to get stem-cell research moving

Erika Check

Stanford University in California is joining a growing list of US universities that are establishing privately funded stem-cell institutes.In announcing its Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine on 10 December, Stanford become the latest institution to attempt to use non-federal money to try to resolve funding and oversight dilemmas in the controversial field of research on human embryonic stem cells.