Perhaps nowhere else in the nation was President Barack Obamaâ??s decision to reversal on the governmentâ??s stem cell research policy more celebrated than at the University of Wisconsin.
The university is where the field of embryonic stem cell research got its start and continues.
UWâ??s Dr. Jamie Thompson was the first to isolate embryonic cells more than a decade ago and a new hub of research, the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery is rising up in the heart of the campus.