STATE STEM CELL INITIATIVES:
CIRM Close-Hauled, Seeks Bonds to Sustain Headway
Constance Holden
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)--a state initiative set up to avoid restrictions on federal stem cell research laid down in 2001 by President George W. Bush--is scaling back, rethinking its priorities, and looking at how to mesh its activities with those that will soon be funded by the National Institutes of Health.