Seems that the world is moving along, and doesn’t really care about what Bush and company think. The passionate defenders of pre-embryos in petri dishes, while at the same time are trying to cut food stamps for children (you know, as in human beings who are already walking the earth).

Anyway, despite Bush’s ban on most stem cell research in the U.S., and his impassioned pleas for the rights of pre-embyos (as to not caring about bombing Iraqi children or those living on American streets), other nations have just ignored him. Singapore and South Korea are poised to become leaders in science, namely, in stem cell research.

A bank that will create and supply new lines of embryonic stem cells for research around the world has been opened in Seoul, South Korea. The project is being led by cloning expert Dr Woo Suk Hwang, who has pioneered the development of stem cells tailored to individual patients.

It will serve as the main centre for an international consortium, including the US and the UK.

Basically, the bank will help scientists from countries like the US get around the government restrictions on stem cell research.

This should be interesting. I wonder if Bush will try to put an “import ban” on cell lines that come from this bank.

It is hoped to create about 100 cells lines per year with genetic defects that cause such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

BBC

I just received an email about how I can “become the man that women desire.” And how I can pleasure my partner every time with a bigger, longer, stronger Unit!

Do people really buy this stuff from spammers? Some of the spams aren’t even written in comprehensible English, and some of them I can’t even figure out what they’re selling. In this case, I’m assuming that hoped the message would end up in a male in-box (or in someone’s box who dreams of being a man), and that this man had dreams of making his “unit” grow and grow and grow–until it became Magic Mountain.

I reiterate–I hate spam. Maybe if we threatened to cut off the units on spammers they might cease and desist. Or desist and cease.

At any rate, I have no desire to “become the man that women desire,” primarily because I’d first have to undergo a sex change operation which to me, doesn’t seem like a whole lot of fun.