What are Stem Cells? STEM CELLS are the future of medicine. Human stem cells offer hope to people with a wide range of devastating diseases and conditions like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes and more. They can also be used in research to discover new treatments and cures; they can generate organs for transplantation; they can
What are stem cells, and why are they so important? Stem cells are the builders and the repairmen of the world's most complex construction project: the creation of a human body! Thanks to the seven million California voters who voted Yes on Proposition 71, California’s $3 billion stem cell initiative, California’s scientists are already making
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects the brain and spinal cord by turning immune cells against the host, but scientists at the University of California, Irvine are using innovative methods that involve stem cells to combat the disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMEH7bZyfrs
What causes type 1 diabetes (T1D) and why do insulin injections help manage the disease? Watch our video and get the answers to these questions and learn how stem cell research is leading the way in finding treatments for this disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwJr40NGKk8
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects the brain and spinal cord by turning immune cells against the host, but scientists at the University of California, Irvine are using innovative methods that involve stem cells to combat the disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDOAGNlGscs
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Research using pluripotent stem cells is legal in the United States. Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 2011, have ruled or backed previous rulings that declared that federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is legal in the United States.
Proposition 71 created the California stem cell program, formally titled the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM is funded by $3 billion dollars’ worth of public use bonds, which are sold at a time frame approved by the state treasurer, to fund stem cell research for a period of no less than ten years.
