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CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine
The Next Big Idea
Is Thalidomide Safe for Pregnant Women?
Bob Greene: I'd love to meet Frances Kelsey, the FDA administrator who said Thalidomide was not safe for pregnant women. Now we have new techniques and there's a real explosion of new exciting applications of those stem cells," he says. "You can make that stem cell give rise to all the necessary tissues in the human body" 'I've been there for a few days and saved hundreds of thousands of lives,' writes Greene.
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