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Nature Medicine 7, 1076 (2001)
doi:10.1038/nm1001-1076a

Stem cell losses and gains in the US

Laura DeFrancesco1 & Marlene Cimons2

  1. Pasadena, and Washington, DC

As a protest at the newly formulated Bush administration policy on stem cell research, Netscape co-founder Jim Clark has suspended payment of $60 million of his $150 million gift to Stanford University. Faculty members are at a loss to explain why Clark, a former professor of engineering at the university, is withholding funds, in that stem cell research is not a major thrust of the university's efforts.