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Nature 427, 664 (19 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427664b

Cloning success marks Asian nations as scientific tigers

Helen Pearson

The successful cloning of human embryos by a South Korean team has alerted Western researchers to the pace of scientific and technological progress in East Asia, biologists say.A team led by Woo Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University last week revealed that they had grown the first embryonic stem-cell line derived from a cloned human embryo (W.