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That's how a report in the journal Science sounded last week--at least at first blush. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon, from Korea's Seoul National University, announced that they had created more than 200 embryos by cloning mature human cells and had grown 30 of them to the blastocyst stage of development, each more than 100 cells strong. This isn't the first time cloned human embryos have been produced: in 2001 the Massachusetts biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology made several. They all died quickly, but in a sense the first cloned human cells...
Last Thursday, South Korean scientists Dr. Woo Suk Huang and Dr. Shin Young Moon became the first to extract a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, clearing the first hurdle towards therapeutic cloning—a method aimed at treating diseases rather than making babies...
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 their wedding, the newlyweds went hiking. The husband slipped on a mountain trail and injured his spine. In the five years since the accident, the man hadn't been able to walk or go to the bathroom without his wife's help...
...turned 46 last September, and he will forever stay that age. But he chose a drastic method of staving off wrinkles, a potbelly, the whims of a fickle public. Last Tuesday he scheduled a tea with his friend and former agent, Chan Suk-fan, at a favorite haunt, the Mandarin Oriental hotel. When he didn't show, Chan called Leslie, who was on the terrace of the hotel's 24th-floor gym. He said he'd meet her outside; he'd be right down. It was a final tease?a sick joke, really?for when Chan came out she found...
...Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S. According to an account of Kelly's Pyongyang talks revealed to CNN, Kang Suk-ju told the U.S. official something to the effect of, "Your president called us a member of the axis of evil ... Your troops are deployed on the Korean Peninsula ... Of course, we have a nuclear program...