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...Hwang?s academic affair is the latest plot twist in a drama that?s playing out in the Korean press. Several days after Schatten?s initial break with Hwang, Seoul?s news outlets cited a Korean government official and other sources in both Korea and the U.S., claiming that Schatten had met with Hwang in October and asked for 50% of the patent on the patient-specific stem cell cloning technique. Schatten also reportedly asked to be named chairman of the board of the newly created World Stem Cell Hub, a research center funded jointly by the South Korean government...
...Despite all the negative publicity, Hwang?s popularity didn?t seem to be suffering too much. At home, he is enjoying emotional swells of support from thousands of women who have lined up outside his lab doors pledging their willingness to donate eggs to his research...
...Still, Hwang has a lot of explaining to do. He is already being investigated by his own university. And earlier this week, eight stem cell scientists, led by Dolly cloner Ian Wilmut, submitted a letter to Science, noting that ?accusations made in the press about the validity of the experiments published in South Korea are, in our opinion, best resolved within the scientific community... we encourage Hwang?s laboratory to cooperate with us to perform an independent test of his cell lines.? At stake, say the scientists, is the fledging field of stem cell science, which holds the potential...
...Until such testing is completed, it seems the intrigue and the accusations will only continue to deepen. Hopefully, once Hwang is back in the lab, the questions swirling around in the press about his work will be answered. Unfortunately, that may take a while. Hwang is back in the hospital, this time in the psychiatric ward...
...become too customary to expect an immediate decrease in its use. Although efforts should be made to winnow out the overuse of SSNs, in the mean time, the SSA should resume issuing SSNs to foreign students as they did just one year ago.June Hwang ’09, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Grays Hall...