SCIENCE, POLITICS, STEM CELLS AND GENES: CALIFORNIA'S WAR ON CHRONIC DISEASE

Is there a way to fight back against “incurable” disease? California thought so — and put its money where its mind was — three billion dollars’ worth! And when that was gone, how about five and a half billion dollars more — to build and expand the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine?

For some, science excites; it is the great adventure, to challenge the impossible: like a real-life battle with a giant squid, or the proposed disassembly of the Eiffel Tower, or ejecting from …