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This is the sixth-floor lab in Building No. 85 at Seoul National University, the center of operations for Woo Suk Hwang, the South Korean scientist who made headlines last week when he announced that his team, using Dolly-the-sheep techniques, had created 11 human stem-cell lines perfectly matched to the DNA of human patients--a giant leap beyond anything any other lab has achieved. The eggs hollowed out in Building No. 85 were fused with skin cells taken from nearly a dozen patients--ages 2 to 56, suffering from a variety of injuries and disorders--and grown...
...veterinary scientist by training, Hwang says his pioneering work with human stem cells would not have been possible without an extensive animal-research program. Building on what he learned from his experiments on cows, pigs and ducks, Hwang developed his own assembly line of nearly two dozen steps to improve the efficiency of human stem-cell production. "I wanted to develop a unique technique, not just mimic and modify what others had done," he says...
Such respect for the natural order of things might seem unusual in a scientist whose work seems anything but natural. But for Hwang, generating stem cells is more than just a scientific process. It's no accident that there are more people than machines in Hwang's lab. It's part of an effort on his part to keep the entire procedure as human as possible. He even makes sure that at least one of his researchers keeps the cells company all day and most of the night, as a way of nurturing respect for them. "In this kind...
...only honest answer is that nobody fully knows. No pundit or political scientist has yet convincingly argued everything that Democrats should do to reclaim confidence in their leadership. But, like intellectual potluckers, thousands of people are serving their favorite home-cooked ideas. And, as at any potluck, some of the offerings are wonderful, and some will make everyone sick...
...bill to protect stem-cell research have promised a fight over how the money is spent when it starts to flow in 2008. New Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility and grants. In Wisconsin, where in 1998 James Thomson became the first scientist to cultivate human embryonic stem cells, Governor Jim Doyle wants $375 million for an institute. And Illinois is considering a "nip and tuck" law that would impose a 6% tax on elective medical procedures like plastic surgery to fund a stem-cell center...