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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Tony Oro: Stem cell therapies for incurable diseases
Description: By last count, there are 5,000 genetic diseases in the human body.
A few are merely annoying, but far more are devastating and without cure. In the last decade, much popular attention has been focused on the potential for stem cells and gene therapies to cure these once-intractable diseases. While the promise is clear, Tony Oro cautions patience.
Oro is a dermatologist and associate director of the Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine at Stanford. He is a leading expert in the scientific and ethical dilemmas such therapies raise. He and many others say cures are...