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When Hwang Woo Suk, one of South Korea's leading cloning experts, hit a frustrating patch in his research last year, a neurosurgeon colleague suggested he spend time with some patients who might benefit from stem-cell research. Hwang met a young couple with a tragic tale. The day after...
Want to lose weight using ephedra? You can't. Bush's FDA has banned the over-the-counter supplement. Steroids? You heard the Nanny in Chief. And if you're a scientist researching a touchy subject, be prepared to feel the breath of Big Government down the back of your...
Worries about the perils of cloning are heading from the fire to the frying pan. After studying the dangers of allowing food products derived from clones and their offspring into the U.S. food chain, the FDA has issued a preliminary report declaring them just as safe to eat as those...
Stem cell research is a controversial field because deriving stem cells for research requires the destruction of embryos. Two years ago, the Bush administration announced restrictions on research that limited federally funded projects on stem cells to a small number of cell lines that were created before April 9, 2001...
The bottom line, say critics, is that perfecting a technique that could be used for human cloning, even if it were developed for another purpose, is just a bad idea--an assertion Zhuang rejects. "I agree that it makes sense to control these experiments," he says. "But we've developed...