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Chopsticks for better cloning

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67599,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

"The secret to the Koreans' success may not be cash, but the drive and manual skill of their scientists. Hwang Woo-suk said he received relatively little money for their breakthrough study, which led to tailor-made stem cells derived from embryonic clones of patients. He also said he and his colleagues, being Korean, are handy with metal chopsticks, and hence uniquely skilled at the delicate work of cloning human embryos."

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