“If you aren’t prepared to waste money on things that might not work, you can’t possibly do things that are transformative. Because for every successful transformative idea, there’s five times as many non-successful transformative ideas. Nobody knows how to figure out in advance which ones they’re going to be.”
Stem cells are most capable when we are young, and they lose potency over time. For example, when a child falls and scrapes his knee, that wound will likely heal without a scar. On the other hand, an adult with the same injury develops a life-long scar. There are even more remarkable examples in other species: for instance, the newt’s stem cells can r…