Wednesday, October 19, 2005

International Stem Cell Initiative Planned: Collaboration on Cloned Embryos and Disease Research to Be Announced Today

Read the full Washington Post story.

"Korean and American researchers are expected to announce a broad collaboration today under which cloned human embryos will be created in the United States, Britain and South Korea in an effort to develop new ways of studying -- and perhaps curing -- human disease.

"Advocates said the collaboration, to be known as the World Stem Cell Hub, will seek to marry Korean expertise in cloning, a field in which that country has become a world leader, with the deep knowledge of U.S. and European researchers in the biology of human diseases. The plan could accelerate some types of medical research that have gotten off to a slow start because of political opposition in the United States, its backers said."

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