January 20, 2006
Panel Says South Korean Researcher Fabricated All Cloned Stem-Cell Lines
The superstar South Korean stem-cell researcher, Woo Suk Hwang, has turned out to be a master of deception. An investigative panel convened by Seoul National University reported last week that Dr. Hwang never managed to create stem-cell lines from cloned human embryos, as he had reported in much-heralded papers in Science in 2004 and 2005.
But fraud cases are never simple, and Dr. Hwang's work was not totally without merit. The panel reported that Dr. Hwang apparently succeeded in
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