Proposition 71 Videos

California Proposition 71 TV Ad: "Twins"

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• Author: BenKaplan14

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This is a 30-second TV commercial I was featured in with my brother for California's Proposition 71 in 2004 about stem cells' potential to treat cerebral palsy.

Marcy Darnovsky of CGS on the politics of stem cells (Pt.1)

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• Author: geneticsandsociety

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CGS Assoc. Director Marcy Darnovsky spoke about California's $3 billion stem cell ballot initiative, Proposition 71, at the Dec. 2004 symposium at City University of New York.

Toward Fair Cures: Diversity in Stem Cell Research

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• Author: GreenliningInstitute

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In 2004, Californians passed Proposition 71 with an overwhelming support from the state's minority communities. Called the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, it would invest $3 BILLION into stem cell research and development with the promise of cures and an estimated 22000 jobs for the...

2010 Research!America Advocacy Awards Acceptance - Robert Klein, JD

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Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award Robert Klein, JD, was honored for his advocacy for stem cell and diabetes research. Klein led the way for Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative in 2004. Klein serves as the board chair of the California Institute for...

Jerome Zack: Creating iPS Cells

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• Author: CIRMTV

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In 2006 scientists learned how to create a pluripotent stem cell out of a human skin cell. These cells, called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have many of the characteristics of embryonic stem cells including the ability to create mature cell types. Dr. Jerome Zack has a CIRM grant to...

Progress and Promise in HIV/AIDS

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CIRM has funded two HIV/AIDS Disease Teams led by scientists at UCLA and the City of Hope who are focused on stem cell transplant strategies that promise a long lasting resistance to HIV. Antiretroviral therapy provides life-saving medicine to HIV-infected people but it is not a cure. Long-term...

Amander Clark: Creating Embryonic Stem Cell Lines

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• Author: CIRMTV

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All embryonic stem cell lines in use in labs around the world come from embryos that were donated by people who had gone through in vitro fertilization. Amander Clark has a CIRM grant to develop new lines that are suitable for transplantation therapies. She also uses the lines to study...

Fred H. Gage: Stem cells for modeling disease

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Bruce Conklin: Drug screening with stem cells

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One possible use for pluripotent stem cells is to screen drugs for toxic side effects. The idea is that researchers could grow those stem cells into mature cell types such as heart, liver, or brains cells, expose them to new drugs or potential environmental hazards, then look for toxic side...

Jeff Bluestone: Immune rejection of stem cell transplants

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Any cells derived from embryonic stem cells that are transplanted as a therapy will likely be rejected by the immune system much like a transplanted heart or liver. Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone has been studying ways of achieving transplantation with little or no drugs. He is the AW & Mary Margaret...