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Photo Essay: Gimme Shelter

A lab building boom is underway in California thanks to money raised by the state's stem cell agency. The race is on as 12 institutions must complete building their state-of-the art research facilities in just two years.


Thanks to California’s $3-billion stem cell research initiative passed by voters in 2004, this bouncing from place to place will be drawing to a close. UCSF is one of 12 institutions statewide receiving a chunk of the $831 million raised through Proposition 71 and other donations to build stem cell research facilities free of the federal restrictions.

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  • Gimme Shelter
    A lab building boom is underway in California thanks to money raised by the state's stem cell agency. The race is on as 12 institutions must complete building their state-of-the art research facilities in just two years.
    September 15, 2008 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Science - Research
  • Why Darwin May Be Wrong
    Stanford's Joan Roughgarden takes issue with Darwinian theory of sexual selection, but she's no creationist. The evolutionary biologist believes it's time to look at sex in a new way.
    August 19, 2008 - SANDYA VISWANATHAN - Science - Research
  • The New Gene Pool
    Scientists develop way to look into marine creatures and isolate promising new drug compounds.
    June 19, 2008 - LISA SUMMERS - Science - Research
  • The Jaws of Life
    Alligator blood may one day lead to a new class of drugs that could fight the world's most stubborn infections.
    June 04, 2008 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Science - Research
  • Photo Essay: The Jaws of Life
    Follow a researcher from alligator-infested swamps in Louisiana to the lab in search of new drugs derived from gator blood.
    June 04, 2008 - Troy Merchant - Science - Research
  • Risky Business    
    Attacks on researchers by animal rights extremists have risen dramatically in recent years. Universities and biotechs face many challenges in blunting the threats.
    May 15, 2008 - CAROLYN MARSHALL - Science - Research
  • In the Gecko Chamber    
    Scientists think they've learned the secret of sticky - and biomedical applications may not be far off.
    April 25, 2008 - ALEX GRONKE - Science - Research
  • Humor Is a Male Thing, Seriously    
    A unicycling scientist concludes that trying to be funny stems from testosterone-driven aggression.
    April 11, 2008 - JULIE CHAO - Science - Research
  • Publish or Perish
    Although the United States is by far the leader in published articles in all science and engineering fields, Asian countries are seeing rapid growth.
    April 03, 2008 - Science - Research
  • Same As It Ever Was    
    A letter from the editor.
    April 01, 2008 - WLLIAM PATRICK - Science - Research
  • The Science of O    
    Can unlocking the mystery of the female orgasm lead to new pain medications?
    March 31, 2008 - ALEX GRONKE - Science - Research
  • Saved By Worms    
    Scientists are learning how parasitic nematodes might actually be good for us-and could one day be used to treat allergies.
    March 11, 2008 - ROB R. DUNN - Science - Research
  • Dr. Fix-It    
    Michael Merzenich helped reverse hearing loss for many with research that led to the cochlear implant. Now the neuroscientist is on what may be his boldest quest yet: repairing the brain.
    March 06, 2008 - EMILY WILSON - Science - Research
  • YouTube for the Lab Set
    Website JoVE.com seeks to make experiments more reproducible through videos in hopes of speeding drug discovery.
    February 29, 2008 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Research
  • What's up, Doc?    
    The use of animals in drug testing is waning with the rise of microdosing and other methods that can be cheaper, more precise, and less ethically challenging. But when it comes to safety testing, animals will likely still play a role for some time to come
    February 18, 2008 - SUSAN MCCARTHY - Science - Research
  • Brain Drain
    Maintaining the current research funding levels - while the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease will quadruple by mid-century - is unacceptable.
    January 22, 2008 - SAM GANDY - Science - Research
  • Fat Chance    
    Applications of adipose-derived stem cells, once promising, could be decades away.
    December 01, 2007 - LISA SUMMERS - Science - Research
  • A Winning Gene    
    A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
    J. Craig Venter
    Viking, 375 pp, $25.95

    December 01, 2007 - DAVID GOLLAHER - Science - Research
  • Webcast
    Epigenetics: Playing the Genetic Score
    November 28, 2007 - Science - Research
  • The Unlikely Mentor    
    Groundbreaking DNA researcher Elizabeth Blackburn values curiosity over cut-throat competition and thus makes it safe to take smart risks.
    November 27, 2007 - CATHERINE BRADY - Science - Research
  • Bee Bites    
    Their decline could have consequences, but fewer European honey bees might be a good thing.
    November 01, 2007 - ROB R. DUNN - Science - Research
  • Microbes with Staying Power    
    Below Antarctica's ice sheets, life goes on and on and on.
    November 01, 2007 - LISA SUMMERS - Science - Research
  • Happy as a Mussel    
    Prozac and other drugs could be killing mollusks - and imperiling our waterways.
    October 08, 2007 - LISA SUMMERS - Science - Research
  • Silence Is Golden    
    The brain is most active when nothing is happening.
    October 01, 2007 - JULIE CHAO - Science - Research
  • A Researcher's Best Friend    
    Studying the dog genome could speed up the process of understanding human disorders.
    October 01, 2007 - SALLY LEHRMAN - Science - Research
  • Licensed to Cure
    Southern Research Institute sees a role for itself in bridging the academic and corporate worlds.
    September 26, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Research
  • Universities Mean Business
    Merck and Harvard enter a collaboration that reflects the closer ties being forged between industry and academia, but it's a trend that is alarming to some.
    September 18, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Research
  • Young Buck Launches New Science of Aging
    NIH provides $25-million grant for interdisciplinary program in newly-dubbed field of geroscience at a California institute for age research.
    September 07, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Research
  • The Sound of Science    
    September 01, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Science - Research
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper    
    Insect-derived drugs are the next big thing. But finding them means a race against time.
    September 01, 2007 - By Robert R. Dunn - Science - Research
  • From Rehab to Regeneration    
    Military-supported researchers take on the challenge of growing new limbs and other body parts.
    September 01, 2007 - By Ann Parson - Science - Research
  • Hard Currency
    July 02, 2007 - Science - Research
  • Building Bridges
    Academia and industry should work together to help patients
    May 11, 2007 - DOUGLAS CRAWFORD - Science - Research
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Influential People    
    A study on cancer survival rates sparks questions of industry funding of research.
    November 02, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Policy - Research
  • A Room with a View    
    Kids play a key role in designing Glasgow new children hospital.
    September 01, 2007 - Michael Friel - Health - Global Health
  • Spot's Little Helper    
    Canines need drugs, too. The trick is getting pharma to pay attention.
    September 01, 2007 - By Varese Layzer - Business - Business Strategy
  • Mummy Would Be Proud    
    Ancient Egypt, not Greece, appears to be the birthplace of modern medicine.
    September 01, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Society - Research
  • A Modest Proposal
    Two oncologists want to address the high cost of drugs with a glass of grapefruit juice and the pharmaceutical industry should worry.
    July 16, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Medical Economics
  • Delivering the Goods
    $1 billion RNAi deal heats up sector, but hurdles for the technology remain.
    July 12, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Business - Drug Development
  • Breathing New Life
    Eli Lilly launches public-private non-profit partnership to discover new drugs to treat tuberculosis.
    June 25, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Global Health
  • A Shot In The Arm
    A company developing a breakthrough approach to producing vaccines gets boost from US Government.
    June 19, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Vaccines
  • A Noble Prize
    Hedge fund managers seek to spur innovation in cancer research through $1 million prize.
    June 01, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Innovation
  • The Early Bird
    Canary Foundation funds Stanford center to identify new ways to detect cancer at its earliest stages.
    May 25, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Society - Philanthropy
  • In A Pig's Islet
    Australian company ready to enter clinic with encapsulated pig cells.
    May 14, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Regenerative Medicine