US court halts funding of cell research
A US court on Monday issued a temporary halt to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research which President Barack Obama had authorised, saying it involved the destruction of human embryos.
South Korea will lift a three-year ban on human stem cell research, a presidential advisory committee announced Wednesday.The government outlawed research in 2006 following a scandal involving disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have created stem cells from cloned human embryos.