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• Glacial melt thaws South Asian rivalry

  International collaboration aims to map glacier retreat in the Himalayas.

  16 April 2008

• Korean waterway project gathers opposition

  Flood of complaints hits ambitious canal plan.

  19 March 2008

• Stem-cell claim gets cold reception

  Carbon nanotubes used to reprogramme adult human cells?

  07 March 2008

• Meat meter measures marbled muscles

  Scientists devise way to measure tastiness of meat.

  27 February 2008

• Check your GPS at the border

  Foreign researchers fall foul of monitoring restrictions in China.

  20 February 2008

• Human embryos cloned from adult cells

  Researchers are eager to see whether patient-matched stem-cell lines can be produced.

  17 January 2008

• Stem cells: a national project

  Japan rushes to capitalize on 'reprogrammed' adult cells.

  16 January 2008

• Disgraced cloner Woo Suk Hwang attempts a comeback

  Work continues to be published under Hwang's name.

  21 December 2007

• Asia plans first cancer network

  Regional initiative will coordinate data sharing and epidemiology.

  05 December 2007

• A simpler recipe for human stem cells

  Adult skin cells turned to pluripotent stem cells without a cancer-causing agent.

  30 November 2007