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...believe the two junior lab workers felt pressure to donate their eggs? They donated eggs completely voluntarily...
South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo Suk admitted last month that his lab accepted human egg donations from two of its own researchers, a violation of scientific ethics. Yet Hwang's televised apology stirred South Koreans and prompted many women to volunteer their own eggs. Hwang tells TIME's Anthony Spaeth via e-mail that his research must continue...
...part of your story that people have trouble believing is that you didn't know of the donations by your research assistants until the Nature article appeared. Is this true? How is it possible that the head of the lab was not aware of the sources of the eggs? It is true. I am not in the position to be that aware of the sources of the eggs. I am physically and structurally barred from any direct access to the oocyte collection process according to Seoul National University's Institutional Review Board's guidelines. What we receive is oocyte...
...believe the controversy over your lab's procedures could have a lasting, negative effect for the international reputation of South Korean science? The fact that I had chosen to protect my researchers does not excuse me from having withheld the information. However, please know that it never was my deliberate intention. What is clear now is that research like this requires transcending all cultural considerations...
...Well, I think that the closer you get to the courses we give and the faculty who teach them, the less atypical we really look. The analogy shouldn’t really be with the humanities courses but with the sciences. A lot of studio courses are like lab courses—they’re intensive, materials-based, results-producing, experimental, high-intensity, work-in-a-group kinds of events… There’s a creative component, but there’s a creative component in science, too.THC: I’m curious about your story, becoming...