Tobias Brambrink Stem Quotations

One of the big concerns is if these stem cells express (produce) genes that can cause cancer. After implanting them into a patient, it would be cancer waiting to happen. You want to make sure that the cells you use for therapy are actually normal and are not in any way screwed up to start with.

Stem cells hold great promise for human therapy. In an optimal world, we would make stem cells genetically matched to a patient.

This paper shows that it's worth the effort to clone an embryo and make a stem cell line because it should be useful for therapy.