From an AP story by Ji-Soo Kim:
"This work can be done much better in Oriental hands," cloning master Hwang Woo-suk recently told the journal Nature Medicine.
"We can pick up very slippery corn or rice with the steel chopsticks."
Last year, Hwang, a professor at Seoul National University, and his colleagues became the first scientists to extract stem cells from a cloned human embryo.
This week they announced a startling advance: They dramatically improved their efficiency in producing human stem cells, growing 11 new batches that for the first time genetically matched injured or sick patients.