I personally think stem-cell research is still in the conceptual phase and still has a long way to go before it has commercial applications. It's more of a political and media issue than a technology that's close to making a difference in curing disease.

You can fight the Nasdaq for just so long. Eventually, the principal of guilt by association is going to come into play.

It has great scientific potential, but there's a difference between good science and a good investment. If anybody can point to a winner in that race, they're much smarter than I am. The race has just begun, and the pack hasn't separated yet.

You don't go to be the president of a research center and get paid $10 million to go interview undergraduates. This makes him the highest paid human resources director in history.

This is not a single technique, but really a research approach which takes the individual processes that are often studied in isolation and links them together in a model. This is an approach for making full use of the fundamental research in field-scale studies.

We expect that if the research misconduct allegations are not referred for full investigation, the sabbatical request would be approved.