The Dirty Secret Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

According to ES cell researchers and funding advocates, the time frame for the first embryonic stem cell research miracles seems to be "a decade away" or "a decade off." Thus it appeared in a 1998 article heralding the creation of the first human ES cell culture in James Thomson's University of Wisconsin lab. Thomson et al "warn that such clinical applications are perhaps as much as a decade away." Check your calendar. Addressing a 2007 convention, Thomson articulated that the time frame had shifted to "decades away," plural. Forbes