A Sampling of Clips for 
September 10, 2004

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California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight
Science Magazine, Sept. 10 -Patient advocates, venture capitalists, and research leaders have launched a campaign to persuade California voters to pass an unprecedented ballot proposal, called Proposition 71, that would allocate $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research over the next 10 years. (Quote by Lawrence Goldstein, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5690/1544

Smac-ing Back at Cancer Cells
Innovations Report, Germany, Sept. 9-By mimicking a molecular switch that triggers cell death, University of Texas researchers have killed cells grown in the laboratory from one of the most resilient and aggressive cancers - a virulent brain cancer known as glioblastoma. The new approach to tricking the cell-death machinery could be applied to a wide range of cancers where this pathway, known as apoptosis, has been inactivated. (Quote by Steven F. Dowdy, an associate professor of medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine.)
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-33358.html