Wisconsin Business reports that California’s Prop 71 will create a “giant sucking sound” as big stem cell labs and important scientists are vacuumed up by California. The article asks how much will it take to lure James Thomson? Interesting question…several weeks ago we blogged Alta Charo’s comments regarding the threat of Bush policies to Wisconsin. One could be cynical about that threat, given that Wisconsin holds so much intellectual property in stem cell research that Wisconsin profits no matter who is doing the work. But Alta is clearly right that Wisconsin could lose its key figures in stem cell research to Prop 71 and to California.
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