I'd say they managed to get their act together in the end. Longs are obviously very forgiving. As long as we get news of good progress we are OK with waiting, even if it takes way longer than planned. I wonder if it was just old friendship/partnership that made pmcb go with the old lab, they did the cloning after all even if proved to be an inadequate cell line due to heterogeneity of the cells...
The past is in the past; since the CC in November we have been getting only news about positive progress and it is now the final spurt. No way back ;) We are getting there this year!