{"id":1163,"date":"2007-07-30T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bioethicist_welcomes_closing_of_stem_cell_firm\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T20:07:00","slug":"bioethicist_welcomes_closing_of_stem_cell_firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Bioethicist Welcomes Closing of Stem Cell Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A prominent bioethicist says he hopes that the closure of ES Cell International, a leading embryonic stem cell research facility, is a sign of growing realism.<\/p>\n<p>Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk commented on the closure of the biotechnology firm in Singapore, telling ZENIT, &#8220;We can only hope that a certain realism may finally be sinking in, as Wall Street types recognize that the timeline for clinical therapies is likely to be quite long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The firm closed when investors concluded that &#8220;the likelihood of having products in the clinic in the short term was vanishingly small,&#8221; Alan Colman, former chief executive of ES Cell International, told Science magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenit.org\/article-20247?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent bioethicist says he hopes that the closure of ES Cell International, a leading embryonic stem cell research facility, is a sign of growing realism. Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk commented on the closure of the biotechnology firm in Singapore, telling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1163\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-life-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}