For CIRM, there's no place like home

California’s stem cell research funding agency may be unpacking its bags. At last some of them.
When Gov. Jerry Brown called for state agencies to cancel unnecessary out-of-state travel in light of the state’s ongoing fiscal problems, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine told Brown that all its impending trips — including to Australia, Japan, Paris and Amsterdam — were “mission critical.”
In fact they were, in CIRM’s view, virtually a matter of life and death.