March 2nd, 2007 State funds have begun flowing to embryonic stem-cell research in California for the first time since voters approved public funding for the research in 2004. Nearly 20 universities and nonprofit laboratories in California received grants worth almost 45 million U.S.

May 17th, 2007 Hurdle to stem cell funds cleared, the California Supreme Court gave final clearance Wednesday to California's landmark $3-billion stem cell research effort, declining to hear an appeal of two lower court rulings upholding the constitutionality of 2004's Proposition 71. Experts agreed that the plaintiffs had exhausted legal challenges, at least as far as the funding is concerned.

September 22nd, 2006 In the United States, presidential mandates and legal hurdles are major obstacles to funding and carrying out research involving hESCs. State governments--especially California's--and a few private foundations are scrambling to fill the gap.

December 17th, 2008 The stem cell research center at UCSF got a major boost as it manage s to win a $25 million donation toward a new facility. UCSF officials announced to have received the donation from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, a Los Angeles group that funds scientific and medical research.

August 5th, 2006 Speaking to a national audience (at the National Stem Cell Symposium in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Center for American Progress) Friday, Gov. Jim Doyle portrayed Wisconsin as a leader in stem-cell research whose future is jeopardized by politics.

April 17th, 2006 Stanford University's medical school received $1.2 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for the training of stem cell researchers. The university said the payment -- one of 16 made in the first round of training grants by the institute, which oversees stem cell funding in the state -- would support 16 scholars, six of them graduate students, five postdoctoral researchers and five doctors.

November 22nd, 2006 The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency Proposition 71 created to manage California's $3 billion stem cell research program, is nearing its second anniversary. CIRM is making strong progress toward its goal of turning stem cells into therapies and cures, despite litigation that challenges voters' right to pay for research and that currently limits research funding.

June 30th, 2008 The stem cell research in the USA is likely to have a major boost when a grant of $24 million was awarded by The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to stem cell research in the state. Of the money, $23 million will be donated to the research into the derivation and propagation of new lines of pluripotent human stem cells.