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Voice from last issue:
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3 H; M, e* B* k/ j7 i% ?“It damages the field because people will take it as a sign of a scientific or medical failure. It was a business failure, not any kind of failure of embryonic stem cells.”-- John Kessler, chairman of the neurology department at Feinberg and director of the Northwestern University Stem Cell Institute.1 p% P7 e  N& s  z& y& I
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"It's kind of a heartbreak. It is truly unfortunate for the field that the first possible product didn't get to go out of the gate."--Melissa Carpenter, principal of Carpenter Group Consulting in Seattle, Washington, who served as Geron's director of stem-cell biology in the company's early days.
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& Y0 N& a# F8 z3 H" W/ w# p# R/ M“People have a feeling they have to chose between science and faith. So it was the opportunity for them to understand that actually the Catholic church supports adult stem cell therapies and research and that they don’t have to make this choice.” -- Dr. Robin Smith, CEO of NeoStem.
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"Now that we know how HSCs change and function in elderly individuals who are not ill, we should be able to tease out disease-associated changes from normal age-associated phenomena."--Wendy Pang, MD. in the Medical Science Training Program at Stanford.
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0 k) V6 L6 q' k$ n7 G% i"Embryonic stem cells walk a tightrope with maintaining their normal genetic nature. We need to culture them in the best possible way so they keep those genes normal."--Dr Andrew Laslett from CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering.
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9 c& q& f1 x" S2 s- s6 q+ F1 g“I do not think that (Geron’s) decision takes away from the promise of stem cell research, but it does point out that new therapeutic strategies such as stem cells and gene therapy may well be more challenging to bring to the clinic than the use of small molecules or biologics.” --Edward Holmes, president of the Sanford Consortium.
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Plastic Surgeons Say Don’t Believe the Stem Cell Hype6 ?( L* @! f* s$ Z
http://www.theplasticsurgerychan ... the-stem-cell-hype/
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Stem cell hope for heart problems
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