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Another Contender in the Stem Cell State Race

May 09, 2007

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick proposed an idea to keep his state at the forefront of medicine and biotechnology. This ten-year, $1 billion plan includes creating a stem cell bank and a center focused on developing drugs from RNAi technology, as well as bonds to pay for capital improvements and tax credits to biotech companies.

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