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...either being genetic or occurring for unknown reasons, but Cloud's story shows that even illnesses like schizophrenia that have genetic origins can be stopped or contained before they start. The health package was ably edited by Jeffrey Kluger and Sora Song and designed by Cindy Hoffman and Patricia Hwang...
Lowell House: Megan K. Bartlett, Jane K. Cheng, Jung Eun Hwang, Jean A. Junior, Stella Lee, Xianlin Li, Lev Menand, Christopher R. Miller, Charles J. Redlick, Ava R. Tramer
...still fettered by regulation that stifles its development as a source of growth and employment. A December report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that service companies are burdened by higher taxes and energy costs than manufacturers, while excessive regulation creates barriers for start-ups. Hwang Doo Jin, an architect who operates his own small firm in Seoul, complains of endless, stressful hours untangling the confusing rules that govern his business. "It is easier to produce a masterpiece than run a viable business over time," Hwang says...
...been lost on RNL BIO, the company that Lee and his team do research for, which sold a $50,000 cloned Pit Bull Terrier to an American client last year. And RNL is not alone on this commercial frontier. Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, another Seoul lab run by Hwang Woo Suk who led Snuppy's cloning at SNU but was later shunned by the international scientific community for fabricating research on human embryos, made headlines in early February for cloning a Labrador named "Lancey" for a Florida couple who paid $150,000 for the pup. Lee says he's cloned...
...news was huge - but it was also a lie. In 2006, Hwang admitted he had falsified his results. (Melton's colleague at HSCI, Kevin Eggan, finally created embryonic stem cells from patients in 2008.) Although Hwang became a pariah, he had the right idea. Melton and others had been trying to do just what the Korean scientist claimed to have done - grow a new population of a patient's own cells. The key to the process is a supply of fresh, good-quality human eggs, which incubate skin cells taken from a patient. Building up such a stockpile, however, proved...