<div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/13 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">John, this is a critically important point sir: there was an erroneous conflation of stem cell research with embryonic stem cell research. The fundamentalists were against creating embryos to harvest stem cells. They managed to get government funding of that restricted. That freed up more government money for patient-derived stem cell research, which ended up being far more fruitful, since the patient-derived cells do not need immune system suppressants. </span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>*If* it is true, in matters of policies I am a little more reluctant to rely on lucky coincidences, where bad intentions lead to happy results... :-)<br> <br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>