May 23, 2005

Korean Dexterity Key to Cloning Advance?

From an AP story by Ji-Soo Kim:

"This work can be done much better in Oriental hands," cloning master Hwang Woo-suk recently told the journal Nature Medicine.

"We can pick up very slippery corn or rice with the steel chopsticks."

Last year, Hwang, a professor at Seoul National University, and his colleagues became the first scientists to extract stem cells from a cloned human embryo.

This week they announced a startling advance: They dramatically improved their efficiency in producing human stem cells, growing 11 new batches that for the first time genetically matched injured or sick patients.

Posted by Anupam Chander on May 23, 2005 at 08:49 PM in CIS Blog Posts | Permalink