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The international life science community is under pressure to get enough findings for their research. Today, science is involved in politics and markets. The scientists' dilemma is to stay independent and to get research grants. No public funding means to look for further sources. To take money from Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease associations means to loose scientific independence and ethical public control over experiments, as John Gearhart stem cell pioneer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore concludes.