Obama offers scientists hope for renewed stem cell research
On the night of Nov. 4, as Yale students saturated Old Campus with jubilant brass bands, tears of joy and outbursts of patriotic song to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, scientists across campus may have been cracking open champagne bottles too.
From the top of Science Hill down to the Medical School, Yale researchers expressed varying degrees of optimism toward improvements the Obama administration hopes to bring to the scientific community. According to his campaign Web site, the president-elect plans on doubling basic research funding over the...
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