Archivos diarios: julio 18, 2013

Not with a bang, but a whimper: the quiet demise of embryonic stem cell research

June 4, 2013 (Mercatornet.com) – Let’s wind the clock back to 2003. In January wheelchair-bound quadriplegic actor Christopher Reeve visited Australia to promote the legalisation of “therapeutic cloning”. This was absolutely necessary, he said, or patients would die needlessly. Scepticism about the potential of embryonic stem cells was utterly unwarranted. «That’s a myth,” he told his Australian…