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...Despite the public mea culpa, Hwang has considerable support in South Korea, where he's something of a national hero. Earlier this week, the female head of an info-tech consulting company, along with 11 other business people, a lawmaker and a female comedian, set up a non-profit foundation to encourage women to donate eggs to stem cell research. Eighty women have signed up so far, a foundation spokesperson said. There has been a backlash against broadcaster MBC for airing a program this week that highlighted the ethical questions about how Hwang obtained eggs. Koreans have called companies that...
...YOUNG-JOON/AP Hwang with Snuppy earlier this year...
...news was a sudden reversal to what had been a very good year for Hwang. His lab produced a series of major steps forward in 2005, including the creation of the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, by a process that was named by TIME earlier this month as the Invention of the Year. At a website called "I Love Hwang Woo Suk," decorated with a Korean flag and pictures of Hwang with Snuppy, many members have posted messages saying they would love to donate eggs. The founder of the site staged a 10-hour, one-man demonstration in front...
...professor of medical science at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul and a member of the Korean Bioethics Association, described Korean reaction as "very emotional and very supportive" of Hwang's research: "They are enraged at the idea that ethical concerns could block scientific advances." She said government and media are confusing the public by obscuring the real issue-that "Korean science has lost credibility in the world." Seoul National University's oversight committee announced that its investigation showed no ethical or legal problems, she notes, but "Korea's representative scientist just turned out to be a liar...
...past year, Hwang also refined his human-cell-cloning process to yield the first stem cells from patients with diseases, bringing medicine a step closer to the possibility of curing illnesses from Alzheimer's to diabetes with a patient's own rejection-proof tissues. Now his new lab will try to duplicate that scientific winning streak without...