“STEM cell science is no stranger to claims that don’t stack up, results that can’t be replicated and doctors willing to rush into the clinic.” One might have hoped that these comments, made more than three years ago in a feature in Â鶹´«Ã½ (11 March 2006, p 42), would by now be outdated. Rigour and caution need to replace the culture of hype and haste that threatened to derail the promise of stem cell biology early in this decade.
A paper , which controversially claimed that human embryonic stem cells could be made to grow into…
