Stem-cell “brain drain” or “brain gain”?
(UPDATED: See below.)
Stem-cell proponents have long told anyone who will listen that U.S. restrictions on the research will lead to a “brain drain” of scientists emigrating to other countries where the work can proceed without limits.
The prospect of the brain drain, though, was always somewhat overblown, as only a handful of scientists have emigrated specifically to escape federal limits on stem-cell research. Among them were Roger Pedersen, the UCSF biologist who in 2001 decamped to… Continue Reading