“The positive publicity that surrounded this experience permitted the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells to be understood by a wide audience, whilst the debate in internet chat rooms between those for as against embryonic stem cell applications became slightly less based on fear and preconception and slightly more on the evidential base.”
— Hollander, Macchiarini, Gordijin & Birchall. 2009. The first stem cell-based tissue-engineered organ replacement: implications for regenerative medicine and society. Regen. Med. 4(2) 147-148
