"Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Sunday to allow embryonic stem cell research in the state, a direct contradiction of federal limits on the research...The move will attract "the best and the brightest" researchers to California, said Larry Goldstein, a professor at University of California San Diego, and halt the migration of stem cell researchers to other countries where it is permitted. "

This is a very interesting move by California's government. There will be alot of bleeding edge research coming out of California with this in effect (not that that is a change from the norm). Yet another reason why UCSF is moving higher and higher on my potential graduate school list.