Quote: "I do think a great deal of this work could be done with the skin-cell-derived stem cells. But we'd have to start completely over, from scratch, and we are not going to slow down to do that, not at this point," said Hans Keirstead, a neurobiologist and stem-cell researcher at the University of California-Irvine. Full Story
I don’t get it. Just move on Hans. Had he stated that the new way of getting stem cells was ineffective, I would understand his reluctance. His not wanting to start from scratch is a lame excuse when his type of study derives such controversy. He’d waste less time putting his energy into expanding this new line of medicine. The Ego is an amazing thing. I’m sure his reservations stem from a monetary perspective rather than ethics.
