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Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang, who will take over teaching Chem 7 for the second half of the semester, said she could not identify the tutor or the students involved. She estimated that the former TF tutored approximately 20 of the almost 300 current Chem 7 students...
...CONVICTED. TAKAYUKI NOGUCHI, 32, Japanese activist; of helping two North Koreans to flee their country via China; in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A district court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison, the most severe punishment China has handed down to a Japanese for helping North Koreans defect...
...using a technique developed by Dr. James Grifo at New York University, Dr. Zhuang Guanglun of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou took the patient's fertilized egg, scooped out the chromosome-bearing nuclear material and put it in a donated egg whose nucleus had been removed. In this more benign environment, development proceeded normally, and the woman became pregnant with triplets who carried a mix of her DNA and her husband's--pretty much like any normal baby...
...Food and Drug Administration created a stringent approval process for such research in 2001--a process that Grifo found so onerous that he stopped working on the technique and gave it to the researchers in China, where it was subsequently banned (but only this month, long after Zhuang's patient became pregnant...
...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 an effective technology to help people. We understand how to do it. We need it." --Reported by Susan Jakes/Beijing and Sora Song/New York