February 3, 2006

A Second Life for Cloning

By RICHARD MONASTERSKY

In the aftermath of South Korea's stem-cell scandal, researchers around the world forge ahead

Scientists have a natural tendency to plug holes. Wherever an important gap in knowledge exists, researchers will rush to fill the breach, even if they have to wade through a lot of muck, intellectual or otherwise.

Such is the case with cloning research, in the malodorous wake left by the collapse of Woo Suk Hwang's stem-cell empire in South Korea. A few months ago, biologists

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