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...South Korean scientist, cloning pioneer and Snuppy creator, Woo Suk Hwang, things keep going from bad to worse. Last month, he had to admit that as part of the groundbreaking stem cell research he published in 2004, one of his colleagues had paid some women for their egg donations, and that two of the unpaid donors were Hwang?s own junior researchers. Amid the ethics controversy that ensued, Hwang was hospitalized for extreme fatigue and exhaustion. He was released earlier this week, only to find one of his former researchers on a national newscast claiming that the history-making stem...
...separate interview, Roh Sung-Il, the doctor who had provided donated eggs to Hwang?s research, said that Hwang had asked Science, the journal that published his paper on patient-specific stem cells, to withdraw the publication. A spokesperson at the journal said that they had not yet received a retraction request, but have e-mailed all 25 co-authors asking for clarification of the fabrication allegations. Roh told news media that of the 11 stem cell lines created from patients with diseases, nine were fake. Whether the two remaining lines were valid, and photographed repeatedly to stand...
...These latest allegation comes just 24 hours after a former Hwang collaborator, Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh, charged Hwang with fabricating his data. Back in June, the two men had co-authored a paper published in Science that detailed how individual stem cell lines were created for 11 patients through cloning. When Hwang?s ethics breaches were uncovered last month, Schatten was already publicly distancing himself from his onetime colleague. But on Tuesday, Schatten, took the next step and asked that his name be removed from the work. His reasons? ?Careful re-evaluations of published figures...
...that Danny’s beloved White Sox have finally managed to end their 88-year World Series drought, it seems anything is possible—like getting Skip Gates’ cell phone digits! Danny will look to blow up other campus celebrities’ mobiles as one of the new FM associates. Next on the list: Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Theda Skocpol, and Marjorie Garber...
When local riot police backed by armed security forces drove tanks into the southern China village of Dongzhou on Dec. 6 and began shooting at demonstrators, there were no journalists present. Still, in this age of the Internet and cell phones, news soon began to filter out that at least six villagers had been killed. And by the end of the week the authorities admitted something had gone terribly wrong, announcing that a top police commander had been detained...