LOS ANGELES — This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell research program, with a well-financed campaign that’s making heady promises about curing diabetes, paralysis, cancer, and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Backers of Proposition 14 also cast it as a job-creation measure, arguing the money it raises will boost the state economy by cementing the Golden State’s place as a leading incubator of successful biotech startups. But opponents say that amid the Covid-19 pandemic and wildfires, California has far more pressing needs.
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Fine piece by Mcfarling. If you want to know more about conflicts at the stem cell agency and the little-told story of how Prop. 14 broadly expands the scope of the agency, check out the California Stem Cell Report, which has covered the agency since 2005. New territory would include mental health and therapy delivery.
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