by david plotz, october 19, 2005 [...] The Chopstick Theory is how Hwang Woo-suk, the world's greatest cloner, accounts for his nation's stem-cell success....
The Chopstick Theory of Scientific Supremacy goes like this: Koreans eat with narrow, metal chopsticks. Nabbing grains of rice with slippery, steel sticks requires a surgeon's dexterity. That's why Koreans have mastered extraordinarily precise «micromanipulation» of eggs and embryos required for stem-cell and cloning research.
...Last year, Hwang and his colleagues were first to clone human embryos and first to extract stem cells from them. [...]

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