September 21, 2007

International News In Brief

COMBATING FRAUD: South Korea's faked-cloning scandal continues to reverberate around the country's universities, which have tightened research regulations since the dismissal of the disgraced scientist at the center of the scandal, Woo Suk Hwang, The Korea Times reported last week. The biomedical specialist was sacked last year from the prestigious Seoul National University after falsely claiming to have successfully cloned a human embryo, sparking a national debate on academic standards. The