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Stem Cell-Inspired Sonnets

Oct 11, 2010

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has announced the winners of its 2010 Stem Cell Awareness Day poetry contest. Two winners and two finalists were selected by a panel of three judges; all four will receive "a framed stem cell image of their choice from CIRM’s Flickr" page, according to the agency. Andy Levy, a software marketer from Woodinville, Wash., took top honors this year for his poem "Birth, Rebirth." Levy, who has a daughter with type 1 diabetes, told CIRM that he and his family "are hopeful that stem cell research will contribute to a cure."

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