A leading scientist who pushed for the controversial research into embryo stem cells will warn today that the challenges are so huge that any cures for disease lie a long way in the future.

Lord Winston,who pioneered fertility research in the UK,is to tell the British Association for the advancement of science meeting in Dublin,that during the political campaign to push through legislation in 2001,some parliamentarians WERE LED TO BELIEVE that clinical treatments were "just around the corner".

this was in the Gaurdian this morning.
amsterdam Reviewed by amsterdam on . Stem cell hopes distorted by 'Arrogance and Spin' A leading scientist who pushed for the controversial research into embryo stem cells will warn today that the challenges are so huge that any cures for disease lie a long way in the future. Lord Winston,who pioneered fertility research in the UK,is to tell the British Association for the advancement of science meeting in Dublin,that during the political campaign to push through legislation in 2001,some parliamentarians WERE LED TO BELIEVE that clinical treatments were "just around the Rating: 5