Korean Cloning

Korea spent $65 million on Dr. Hwang's laboratory which he used to fabricate evidence that he had cloned human cells. He also used 2061 human eggs and produced no real results. However, there's still no mention of focusing funding on adult stem cells, which actually have worked. No, the focus of the article seemed to be on the companies that would be back in the game for embryonic stem cells. I did find this little nugget:

Dr. Hwang's escapade may have prevented other researchers entering the field of human cloning because he seemed to have it all sewn up. "I have to admit that I decided not to push the efforts here at Stanford because it would have been almost unethical to work with human eggs if he had made the process so efficient," said Dr. Irving Weissman, a leading stem cell researcher.

I'm not that big on the morality issue involving human embryos, but even some scientists feel a little skeevy about it.