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NJ to Begin Building Stem Cell Research Facility

TRENTON N.J.

New Jersey on Tuesday will mark the start of construction on what is being hailed as a world-class stem cell research facility paid for with public money.

The $150 million, 18-story tower is to be built on a parking lot in downtown New Brunswick next to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, near Rutgers University, several other schools and hospitals and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

The building is to have facilities for research, clinical study and outpatient treatment and is expected to be completed in spring 2011.

Scientists say stem cell research may hold the key to treatments that could help people who are paralyzed or have illnesses ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s.

The money to build the facility was included in legislation signed into law in December 2006.

It also authorized $50 million to build stem cell research facilities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, $50 million on a biomedical research center in Camden, $10 million to support research at the Garden State Cancer Center in Belleville and $10 million to do the same at the Eli Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program in Allendale.

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