News - Announcements

August 2008

Germans perform world's first double-arm transplant (4.8.2008)
Doctors at the Technical University of Munich have conducted the world's first double-arm transplant on a 54-year-old farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident, officials said. After transplant surgery, this farmer has new arms. His condition "is very good under the circumstances."

South Korea rejects disgraced clone scientist's license (1.8.2008)
The South Korean government on Friday barred disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk from resuming his research into cloned human embryonic stem cells.