Massachusetts Proposes $1 Billion Plan

摘要

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared his state's intention to crank up its status as a life sciences powerhouse. Speaking to the Boston convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Patrick proposed spending $1 billion over 10 years to create a stem cell bank and promote therapies based on RNA interference (RNAi) technology to turn off genes, for which University of Massachusetts (UM), Worcester, researcher Craig Mello won a Nobel Prize last year.