What is a good take home or take away message summarizing the current state of stem cell research?
Stewart: I think the take home would be to be cautious about some of the information that you get in the media and to know that there are both sides to the issue, that some are very, very positive and some are very, very negative, and to just take it with caution and be a very conscientious consumer of information. And just to know that, yes, there’s a lot of potential with stem cell therapies. We’re far off from those being readily available in the clinic at this point, but with additional research and with more and more research towards this area, there is a huge potential in the future for this to treat a variety of diseases and disorders. It’s not going to happen in a year or two years. It might be 10 years away, but there are going to be potential discoveries that’s going to revolutionize medicine as we know it now. So, just in terms of even the knowledge we obtain from learning how a cell decides to differentiate and become the different types of cells that it does, and there’s a
Stewart: I think the take home would be to be cautious about some of the information that you get in the media and to know that there are both sides to the issue, that some are very, very positive and some are very, very negative, and to just take it with caution and be a very conscientious consumer of information. And just to know that, yes, there’s a lot of potential with stem cell therapies. We’re far off from those being readily available in the clinic at this point, but with additional research and with more and more research towards this area, there is a huge potential in the future for this to treat a variety of diseases and disorders. It’s not going to happen in a year or two years. It might be 10 years away, but there are going to be potential discoveries that’s going to revolutionize medicine as we know it now. So, just in terms of even the knowledge we obtain from learning how a cell decides to differentiate and become the different types of cells that it does, and there’s a
