Korean stem cell study funded on $200,000 a year

[ckramer]

A groundbreaking study on stem cell research that could one day provide a cure for debilitating illnesses was funded with less than $200,000 a year in largely government grants, a South Korean scientist said on Friday.

...

Hwang said that about $2 million in funds available to him this year is shared by 20 teams conducting various research projects under his supervision.

"The cost that actually went into stem cell research would be about a tenth of the amount," he told reporters after arriving home from London.

The cost was equivalent to about one hundredth of the funds that scientists in the United States work with on similar projects, said Park Ky-young, South Korea's presidential adviser for information, science and technology.

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[ckramer]

1. Time to outsource the scientists?

[shantipriya]

6. Korean Stem Cell Study

I agree,but only if we can also outsource Sports players and Wall St. tradres & bankers.

[orwell]

2. Government Funding!

How socialist!

[ladjf]

3. All Bush will accomplish by vetoing any stem cell research

is to take the U.S. totally out of the area of research, much to the detriment of Americans health. We are being led by the wishes of the superstitious and that's dangerous.

[XemaSab]

7. Yeah, but if other parts of the world

are doing the research, then the WHOLE WORLD might benefit, instead of just rich American companies.

[ladjf]

8. That's OK too. If fact, it might be a vivid lesson on why Bush

is bad for America.

[Chicago Democrat]

4. The United States, a backward illiterate cesspool of ignorance and greed.

We disgust me.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Well, I guess that the USA won't becoming up with any new science/

technology advances for the next 50 years or so. Guess we'll just have to find a new slogan from "we're # 1".