Sunday, August 29, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jeff Jacoby: Let the private sector fund stem-cell research - '...As it is, a host of private funders are already pouring money into stem-cell research. Just last month, Geron, the company that underwrote Thomson's work in 1998, announced plans to conduct the world's first human clinical trial of a therapy derived from embryonic stem cells, a treatment for damaged spinal cords. And Geron is only one of many corporations -- Aastrom Biosciences, Stemcells Inc., and Osiris Therapeutics are among the others -- using private dollars to fund cutting-edge stem-cell research...'
