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They offer the solution for every human woe. The infertile can use them to grow eggs and sperm. Dementia, heart disease, blindness, Parkinson's, damaged arteries - you name it - can also be fixed with the help of stem cells. We can all wave goodbye to the outdated idea of repairing a body, because we can now regenerate one. With stem cells, doctors really can rebuild you. In the past few days, however, some prominent figures have voiced their unease about how stem cell research is being oversold.
While many scientists sincerely believe that huge strides will come in the long term from research into stem cells, the parents of all 200 or more types in the body, they fear a backlash will result when the research fails to live up to unrealistic expectations in the short term.
Over the decades the mismatch between the daily agenda of the media and the glacial pace of research has set a familiar pattern, where the media turn tentative findings into headline news and, with equal glee, seize on the inevitable disappointments and...
While many scientists sincerely believe that huge strides will come in the long term from research into stem cells, the parents of all 200 or more types in the body, they fear a backlash will result when the research fails to live up to unrealistic expectations in the short term.
Over the decades the mismatch between the daily agenda of the media and the glacial pace of research has set a familiar pattern, where the media turn tentative findings into headline news and, with equal glee, seize on the inevitable disappointments and...
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