Abstract
During the past decade, the field of stem cell biology has received increasing amounts of attention from scientists, ethicists, industrialists, politicians and the general public. This recent interest was primarily stimulated by the derivation of human embryonic stem cells in the late 1990s (Thomson, 1998) and the recognition that such cell lines could be used as a potential renewable source of human tissue for therapeutic applications. It is sometimes difficult to encapsulate the speed at which developments in this field have occurred during the last 10 years. These changes are on a global scale and range from debate and creation of government policy, establishment of international centres of excellence in stem cell science, huge levels of investment both in the public and the private sector, and massive recruitment of scientific expertise and training directed toward stem cell science.
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