Stem cells. Nature’s magic toolbox. Tremendous upside. And probably the most hyped science story of all time. I live in California where voters were sold a $6 billion package to study stem cells. I’m totally behind this effort. But it was oversold, for sure, in terms of cures coming around the corner. Read More

Phil Horner is a scientist at the University of Washington whose lab, by his reckoning, is the only one in the state looking at spinal cord injury. We were in Seattle a day ahead of a Reeve Foundation Road Show (local paralysis community meets senior Foundation management, learns about Reeve programs, especially the science). So Susan Howley, Executive VP, Research and Maggie Goldberg, Senior VP Marketing and Communications, and I pay a visit to Horner and his group. Read More