How big a blow was Geron’s bombshell that it is bailing on embryonic stem cell research? BIG.

Jill Stanek at LifeSiteNews.com: To understand how big a blow to the embryonic stem cell industry this was, you first must know it was Geron that funded the University of Wisconsin Madison’s original research back in 1995, which resulted in the first cultures of embryonic stem cells. It was Geron that started this whole mess.