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WARNING LABEL The Bush Administration is making plans to declare Iran's élite military branch, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a "specially designated global terrorist" group. The decision has reportedly been in the works for months as tensions have escalated over Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions and support for anti-U.S. elements in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be the first time a foreign government entity has been designated as such by the U.S. State Department...
...replacement cell type, [parthenogenesis] can be advantageous,” he said. “But if you want to create cell lines that might be representative of all of the genetic components in someone who has a disease like ALS, for example, you need to do nuclear transfer...
Scadden said that this process of somatic nuclear transfer—essentially taking a nucleus from a skin cell, transferring it into an egg, and then prompting the egg to divide—would allow scientists “to have in a petri dish a model of these complex diseases for which we have very little therapy...
...Somatic nuclear transfer is the process Hwang and his team claimed to have successfully performed in early 2004. Late the following year, Hwang’s research was discredited, as were other claims that he had cloned a dog. The disgraced scientist was also fired from his post at Seoul National University...
...encouraged South Korea to take any steps that will help resolve the nuclear issue, and this meeting is going forward within that framework," says Kim Won Woong, chief of the National Unification Committee in South Korea's parliament and a member of Roh Moo Hyun's ruling Uri party. By contrast, in 2000, the parliamentarian told TIME, "neither the U.S. nor China [the North's most important ally] supported the inter-Korean summit. It's different this time." Now, not just the South Korean president wants to see the ice of the Cold War in Korea melting, but George...