“Here we are, with the ability to use cells that could become any tissue or cell type in the body, that hold the promise of curing everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer to spinal cord injury. Yet we are stalled by an ethical debate which to me is hard to understand.”
Christopher Reeve, who died on 10 October, on the frustration of watching the slow progress being made in stem cell research (Â鶹´«Ã½, 15 March 2003, p 54)
“Religion cannot and must not interfere in this debate.”
Reeve, speaking on stem cells and cloning at the Royal Society, London (22…
