We Shall Overhype

I'm sure most of the blogosphere has heard that researchers at Seoul National University in South Korea have been able to clone embryos that were genetically identical to the original patient and were then able to dismantle the embryos for the stem cells. On the other hand, if they had been working with adult stem cells extracted from the patient, the stem cells would have been automatically genetically identical to the patient. In other words, this is a matter of doing, with great difficulty and low yields, something that could have been done easily with adult cells.

Does the hyperbolic chamber (reported by The Onion) have anything to do with this?

An extra question: If most of these overhyped results come from just one lab in South Korea, have they been replicated?