article in newsweek
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:34 am
Go to newsweek.com for the entire article. Encouraging!!!! Lets all think positive!!! Positive energy!!!
Patients will be closely monitored with MRIs for the first year and followed for a total of 15 years. And trial volunteers will have complete injuries "with no hope of recovery," making the risk worth the potential payoff, says Okarma. Geron's mantra is "living cells will be tomorrow's pills," he says. And he is confident it will get there. So confident, he believes the oligodendrocyte progenitor cells might be applicable to other nervous-system disorders, like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and stroke. Geron plans to publish more of its preclinical data, Okarma says, but in the meantime, the public should be assured that the company has done rigorous research. "Companies die when they're not successful, when a product is harmful or it doesn't work," he says. "The last thing we want to do is be wrong. The future of the company depends on this." Keirstead, for his part, says the first thing he asks when people say "slow down" is "Do you know anyone in a wheelchair?'"
Patients will be closely monitored with MRIs for the first year and followed for a total of 15 years. And trial volunteers will have complete injuries "with no hope of recovery," making the risk worth the potential payoff, says Okarma. Geron's mantra is "living cells will be tomorrow's pills," he says. And he is confident it will get there. So confident, he believes the oligodendrocyte progenitor cells might be applicable to other nervous-system disorders, like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and stroke. Geron plans to publish more of its preclinical data, Okarma says, but in the meantime, the public should be assured that the company has done rigorous research. "Companies die when they're not successful, when a product is harmful or it doesn't work," he says. "The last thing we want to do is be wrong. The future of the company depends on this." Keirstead, for his part, says the first thing he asks when people say "slow down" is "Do you know anyone in a wheelchair?'"