Not long, probably. Stem cells are living gold from a biotech point of view - they can differentiate to any kind of cell in the body and are thus interesting not just from a pure research point of view, but also for the treatment of degenerative diseases (e.g. Altheimers disease). No doubt embryo stem cells will be replaced by other sources of stem cells in the near future, but for now they are very important.
Is there a problem with this?
Peter -- Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> NOTE: I do not speak for my employer, Electric Genetics "Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower." - Karl Marx, 1844 OpenPGP: 1024D/0517502B : DE5B 6EAA 28AC 57F7 58EF 9295 6A26 6A92 0517 502B