Cloning Fraud: How’d it Happen?
Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang pulled off the biggest scientific fraud in memory. How did he do it? How is science supposed to prevent fraud? Why did it matter, and who loses in medical fraud?
View ArticleDolly the clone: 10 years later
In 1997, Dolly was BIG NEWS. What did Dolly teach? Why did cloning attract so many oddballs, and what is the status of reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning? The Why Files honors Dolly with a...
View ArticleGrowing limbs, healing limbs
Salamanders and fish can regrow perfect limbs and fins after amputation. We can't grow a replacement arm, but can the salamander's natural regeneration teach about faster wound healing? The latest...
View ArticleStem cell battle resumes
A federal court has thrown the field of embryonic stem cell research into confusion. Last week, research that destroys embryos could not get federal bucks -- even if those embryos were doomed or...
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Stem cell therapy: When will it help the heart?
Stem cells: When will they heal the heart? It’s been 15 years since a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher isolated embryonic stem cells — the do-anything cells that appear in early development....
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