[extropy-chat] Stem cells cures 'feasible, sensible'

[Damien Broderick]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,11256424,00.html

Leigh Dayton, Science writer
02nov04

WITHIN 15 to 25 years, doctors will be using stem cell therapy to treat a 
host of serious diseases, from Alzheimer's to Huntington's, a pioneer of 
embryonic stem cell research claims.

"In virtually every test environment it's been shown to work. It's feasible 
and sensible," claims geneticist Martin Evans, head of biosciences at 
Cardiff University in Wales. Sir Martin is in Australia to visit biotech 
firms such as Ozgene in Perth, and to speak at the Ausbiotech 2004 
conference in Brisbane this week.

In 1981, while at England's Cambridge University, he and research partner 
Matt Kaufman first "isolated" – separated from other cell types – embryonic 
stem (ES) cells in mice.
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