California's Great Stem Cell Experiment: Inside a $3 Billion Search for Stem Cell Cures

by David E. Jensen

Fifteen years ago, California voters triggered a 21st Century Gold Rush, but it was not about precious metals. It was about a quest for seemingly miraculous stem cell cures for afflictions ranging from cancer to incontinence. Unique in California history, the search has brought together big science, big business, big academia, big politics, religion, ethics and morality as well as life and death and, yes, even sex. Today the California stem cell program has run through nearly all of its original $3 billion and needs more to survive. Next fall, state voters will be asked for an additional $5.5 billion. On their minds will be what they received for the first $3 billion. Has the agency fulfilled its promise of 2004? Will it ever? Author David Jensen has followed the California stem cell program every step of the way since 2005. From the tearful appeals of suffering patients to construction of state-of-the-art research edifices to children whose lives have been saved, he recounts the good and not-so-good times of the stem cell agency. Jensen publishes the highly regarded California Stem Cell Report. He brings to bear a keen eye and analysis in his look at California's stem cell program, one of the largest sources of stem cell research funding in the world. Order "California's Great Stem Cell Experiment" today to learn how this pioneering effort has paid off, struggled and seeks to survive.

130 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2020