Since leaving Beike i have pondered what to do with this group.

There is no one within the company who is wanting to keep a group of

this nature up and running.  I have however been reluctant to just

shut it down but with the posting of a couple of recent questions by

memebers who did not know I was no longer with beike I can see that

leaving it open will lead to misunderstanding about my current role

in the stem cell world.  To avoid that I have been feeling that it

would be best to close the group.  This group only has about 340

members which makes it one of my smaller groups and at this point

there are not many posts being made.  This leads me to think that

closing it will have little impact provided the members have another

option to recieve basic stem cell information.

I do have another group that you can join if you wish to stay in

touch with me and with the other memebrs of this group.  Stem cell

Safety is a yahoo group I started two and a half years ago.  It

currently has about 420 members thus would be able to absorb members

from this group easily.

I know that some of you here are already members of stem cell safety

but for those of you who are not I would like to extend an invitation

to you to join.

The link to the home page is;

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/stemcellsafety/



Please request membership to stem cell safety and stay in touch with

me on that board.  It does have a broader base of information as it

is not limited to information just about Beike and China.  For some

of you it may end up being a better fit.  See you there.

I will give it some time before I formally close this group to allow

everyone to download this message and make the change.

Thank you,

Kirshner