Global Update 2012: USA
November 1, 2012 | Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Maude Rowland Cuchiara

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Kirstin R.W. Matthews
Fellow in Science and Technology PolicyMaude Rowland Cuchiara
Nonresident ScholarDespite the political nature of stem cell research, this area of science continues to flourish in the United States. In 2011, the NIH funded approximately US$1.2 billion in stem cell research — a steady increase from past years — with US$123 million devoted to human embryonic stem cells. According to the ISI Web of Science, more than 4,000 U.S.-authored stem cell publications were produced in 2011, accounting for approximately 38 percent of the world total. Approximately one-quarter of these publications were collaborations with authors from other countries.
Published in Future Medicine, November 2012.
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