Nothing notable has occurred in embryonic stem cell research other than the scientific fraud committed by the infamous South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk.

BBC: Obama ends stem cell funding ban

This is fascinating to people interested in the question of how genomes switch from state to state say, from the state of a stem cell, which can grow into almost anything, to that of a muscle cell, committed to an existence of contraction and expansion.

ECONOMIST: Human genomics