{"63104":{"#nid":"63104","#data":{"type":"news","title":"States Now Fund Majority of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStates, not the federal government, now fund the majority of\nhuman embryonic stem cell research conducted in the United States, according to\na recent study in the journal Nature Biotechnology.\u0026nbsp; In addition, states varied substantially in\nthe extent to which they prioritized human embryonic stem cell research, and\nmuch of the research performed in the states could likely have been funded by\nthe National Institutes of Health under federal guidelines established by\nPresident Bush in 2001. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile the federal government still contributes more to stem\ncell research overall, each year since 2007 these six states have funded more\nhuman embryonic stem cell research than the federal government,\u201d said Aaron\nLevine, assistant professor at Georgia Tech. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELevine created an online searchable database (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.stemcellstates.net\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.stemcellstates.net\/\u003C\/a\u003E) that\nallows users to find detailed information about each grant given out by the six\nstates that adopted programs specifically to fund stem cell research. The\ndatabase currently covers grants given out by California, Connecticut,\nIllinois, Maryland, New Jersey and New York from December 2005 to December 2009,\nand will be updated yearly with new information.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom what I could tell, only a relatively small portion of\nthe stem cell research supported by these states was clearly ineligible for\nfederal funding,\u201d said Levine, who is on the faculty of the School of Public\nPolicy in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELevine reasons this could be a result of the fact that there\nare many incentives for scientists to work with existing human embryonic stem\ncell lines rather than creating new ones. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said he was surprised at how great the difference was\namong states in the share of grants that supported human embryonic stem cell\nresearch. While Connecticut and California devoted 97 percent and 75 percent of\ntheir grants to this research, New Jersey and New York steered only 21 percent\nto this contentious field. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne reason for these differences may be the development of\ninduced pluripotent stem cells, which are derived from adult body cells rather\nthan from embryos.\u0026nbsp; More recent programs,\nsuch as New York\u2019s, may be disproportionally focusing on this new technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s no question that these\nstate programs drew a lot of scientists into the field,\u201d said Levine.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAn interesting question going forward is how\ncommitted these scientists are to stem cell research or if they are relating\ntheir work to stem cells now simply to be eligible for state funding \u2013 that\u2019s\nunknown right now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStates, not the federal government, now fund the majority of\nhuman embryonic stem cell research conducted in the United States, according to\na study by Aaron Levine in the journal Nature Biotechnology.\u0026nbsp; In addition, much of the research performed\nin the states could likely have been funded by the National Institutes of\nHealth under federal guidelines established by President Bush in 2001.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aaron Levine created an online searchable database showing funding information from the six states that adopted stem cell research programs."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2010-12-09 09:34:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"58921":{"id":"58921","type":"image","title":"Dr. Aaron Levine","body":null,"created":"1449176204","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:44","changed":"1475894517","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:57","alt":"Dr. Aaron Levine","file":{"fid":"190783","name":"tpb15085.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpb15085_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpb15085_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35289,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpb15085_0.jpg?itok=pzt1U1lx"}},"63103":{"id":"63103","type":"image","title":"State Stem Cell Programs v. 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