If the pharmas get involved then the FDA will be involved which means another decade or two before treatment is mainstreamed and covered by insurance.because they know it will lead to a cure for most diseases and they are going to patent some portion of stem cell treatments so they have their hand in our pockets, any way they can. I do hope we can keep the drug companies out of stem cell research and treatments -it is our right to be healthy under the constitution of every country that is a democracy-if that is even possible with the amount of corruption in govt