[ExI] Stem cell breakthrough

Brent Allsop brent.allsop at canonizer.com
Sun Feb 2 19:10:08 UTC 2014


I've been diabetic for over 30 years now.  The entire time, more now 
than ever, I constantly hear: "They'll probably have a cure for diabetes 
in about 5 years.

On 2/2/2014 11:53 AM, John Clark wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se 
> <mailto:anders at aleph.se>> wrote:
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>     > the stretch between "awesome in the lab" to "in a clinic near
>     you" is very long.
>
>
> Boy is that ever true! We know astronomically more biology than we did 
> in 1960, but medicine has advanced only very very slightly in all that 
> time. The biggest "recent" advance in medicine, antibiotics,  happened 
> over 50 years ago, and improved sanitation and anesthesia over a 
> century ago. After that it's mostly been a few slight tweaks here and 
> there. Very disappointing.
>
> John K Clark
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