US scientists warn of fraud of stem cell ‘banks’. Certain stem cell researchers are crying foul at the companies offering expensive services of collecting and storing umbilical cord stem cells.
Pharmer suggests reading the above linked article, and waiting for the April Report from the International Stem Cell Society. There are two possible reasons for this effort to reduce public expectations of the usefulness of storing embryonic stem cells.
One is that the storage companies might be raising unrealistic expectations of people storing a small stem cell sample from the umbilical cord of their baby.
The other might be the need to push for more support and funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Wait and watch…….
*when reading the linked article replace “fiberglass” with “fibroblast” til they get around to fixing it.
