South Korea takes the lead in Stem Cell research

"I'm very concerned about cloning," Bush said. "I worry about a world in which cloning becomes accepted."


By PAUL ELIAS
The Associated Press
Friday, May 20, 2005; 8:21 PM


SAN FRANCISCO -- Just a few years ago, Michigan State University scientist Jose Cibelli was considered the leading expert on cloning human embryos to treat and study disease. Now, there's no debate that the cloning king is Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University.

On Thursday, Hwang announced yet again that he had successfully cloned human embryos, this time extracting stem cells from embryos created using the DNA of sick and injured patients. It was the second time in a little more than a year that Hwang had successfully cloned. He remains the only acknowledged scientist to have done so.


Hwang

Hwang is succeeding where the United States is failing because generous South Korean government support helped him create an efficient cloning factory. In his lab, an army of researchers trained in specialized individual tasks mans a high-tech assembly line that often operates 24 hours a day, Cibelli and others say.

In contrast, the few U.S. researchers eager to clone are left scrambling for funds and staff and must contend with legal vagaries as well as staunch opposition from President Bush, who reaffirmed his position on Friday with a veto threat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052000852.html

last few days, at Newcastle upon Tyne University in England

at this rate. Thanks, fundys!

That because of the ignorant fundamentalists (and my mom is very religious) that all the research and money generated by this cutting edge science will go to another country and people will be leaving here to go to other places they can be cured and "then all that's left in the US will be fundamentalist white trash" Cracked me up.

But you knew that!