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The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow...

The power of gene therapy to cure disease, prolong life and change the course of human evolution will be explored by world-leading scientist Professor John Rasko AO in the landmark 60th year of the ABC’s Boyer Lecture series. Professor Rasko AO is President of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy, Head of the Department of Cell & Molecular Therapies at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney’s Centenary Institute.