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Stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk, whose groundbreaking cloning of human embryos thrust South Korea to the forefront of bioscience research, is fighting for his professional life in a controversy that is degenerating into one of the biggest scientific scandals in years.
But last week, Hwang's colleague Roh Sung Il, who collaborated on the groundbreaking study, alleged that Hwang had faked research data so that it appeared more stem-cell lines had been produced than was actually the case. In statements to the media, Roh even questioned whether Hwang had created...
Hwang, who this year became the first scientist to clone a dog, was already under fire after being forced to apologize in November for ethical lapses in his work. It was revealed that many of the eggs used to produce human stem cells in his first breakthrough work at the...
Snuppy, the dog cloned by South Korean scientists, was a disturbing choice for TIME's Invention of the Year. The cloning of mammals has an extremely low success rate, and experience suggests that Snuppy may later suffer debilitating illness. The purpose of the Snuppy experiment is clearly to put a...
I was a bit unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different from and inferior to other living creatures merely...