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Originally Posted by Azure
And if the initial research down on stem cells is even slightly correct, the process could be the greatest medical discovery in a LONG time, and I don't see how any private organization wouldn't want to get their hands all over that.
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You'll find right now theres a lot of talk about what stem cells could theoretically do, but you are not finding a lot of strong results in research yet.
I think a lot of private funding is waiting for something to break in this research, its often the case when a breakthrough is found you'll see a flury of private labs all going after the next step with private funding.
A race to see who can get the golden ticket first, considering when you discover and can patent a process or a drug you'll be rolling in the dough.
But there is caution with these private funds because so many times in the past large sums of money have been put into promising 'leads' and have yielded nothing. Science is about opening hundreds of doors before 1 actually leads anywhere, that one open door then might lead to another 1000 doors of which maybe 1 will allow you to keep going, or those 1000 doors lead to nothing. But you still have to open all those doors to be sure.
This is why its so bloody hard for research, and why there is so much tentativeness from private funding.