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Stem-cell theatrics

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Staminalia: A Dream and a Trial

Written and directed by Valeria Patera. Commissioned by the consortia ESTOOLS and NeuroStemcell, among others. 27 May, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

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  1. Giuseppe Testa is a stem-cell biologist and bioethicist at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. His forthcoming book with Helga Nowotny is Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age. giuseppe.testa@ifom-ieo-campus.it ,

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Further performances of Staminalia are planned in Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Britain.

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Testa, G. Stem-cell theatrics. Nature 465, 1012 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4651012a

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  1. Geremia .

    What therapy or cure has embryonic stem cell research produced? One experimental one at the most?

    Adult stem cell research has produced over 70 as of 2007: http://www.stemcellresearch... .

    So, from a scientific viewpoint, embryonic stem cell research is a waste of time and money because it doesn't produce results. Why are we still talking about it, then?

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