Jeff Donn

South Korea, U.S., and Britian team up in stem cell research

Scientists in South Korea will help their American colleagues, frustrated by U.S. government barriers, create new lines of embryonic stem cells in an unusual partnership in the contentious field, researchers in both countries announced Wednesday. For the Americans, the new international consortium, which includes Britain, presents another avenue for working around the Bush administration's refusal to fund most of the research.