March 27, 2009
The next chapter of California’s stem cell battle will be its textbooks.
Backed by the state Board of Education — as well as powerful lawmakers — the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is ready to reshape the state’s science curriculum and direct a rewrite of textbooks to include sections on stem cells.
CIRM and lawmakers say it is an effort to link education with the jobs of tomorrow and keep California at the forefront of research that ultimately could deliver cures, treatments or tests for diseases ranging from diabetes to Alzheimer’s.
Opponents, however, worry the emphasis would be on morally controversial human embryonic stem cells at the expense of technologies like up-and-coming induced pluripotent stem cells.
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