"It's a long road but it's very exciting."
The punishment of Prometheus, depicted by the 19th century painter Gustave Moreau That was the conclusion reached during a public discussion on stem cell research, the subject of Budleigh Salterton's second science forum which took place yesterday. The speakers were Dr Lesley Chow, from Florida, post-doctoral research associate in the Stevens' Group http://www.stevensgroup.org/ at the Institute of Biomechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London; Dr Christine Hauskeller, from Germany, Deputy Director at Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/ ; and Dr Timothy Allsopp, Head of External Research for Pfizer Regenerative Medicine http://www.pfizer-regenerativemedicine.com/ It was that myth of Prometheus shown in the above painting which drove home to me the importance of stem research as the possible cure of so many common ailments. That and the striking image of the salamander growing new tissue to...