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...from his employees, both ethical violations in the rigorous world of high-level research. Then came the allegation that some of the photos of cells he published did not show what he claimed. And finally, as he was forced to admit two weeks ago, before submitting his resignation to Seoul National University (S.N.U.), that nine of the 11 stem-cell lines he described in Science weren't from clones at all. Last week, in a kind of scientific coup de grace, a university panel declared it could find no evidence to support the validity of the remaining two lines either...
...Hwang?s lab had donated their eggs for research, a clear violation of ethical standards. Then came his admission that photographs in a Science paper he published last year on stem cells cloned from human volunteers were phony, which led to a retraction. But when a panel at Seoul National University ruled last week that not just the pictures but much of the data in the Science paper had been faked as well, Woo Suk Hwang, South Korea?s cloning superstar, had to resign...
...firmament of international antiglobalization activists, South Korea's militant farmers are superstars. Organized with military precision and armed with an almost suicidal disregard for personal safety, Korean farmers have repeatedly clashed with police, most recently at a Nov. 15 protest in Seoul where over 100 were injured. So when Hong Kong announced that 9,000 police officers would be on duty during the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, it's safe to say that they weren't posted to protect the city from the Philippines Domestic Helpers General Union. Some 2,000 South Koreans were scheduled...
...Hwang and his team of researchers at Seoul National University stunned the medical community in May when, in a study published in the U.S. journal Science, he reported that he had successfully produced tailor-made stem cells from 11 cloned human embryos-an unprecedented feat. Though controversial, Hwang's research was hailed as a breakthrough because it appeared to move scientists a step closer to being able to treat a variety of afflictions, from spinal-cord injuries to Alzheimer's, by using a patient's own dna to grow perfectly matched tissue to restore defective or damaged organs...
...Instead, Hwang acknowledged that the images published in Science were problematic, but provided his own explanation: that the stem cells were somehow mismanaged or possibly switched. In January, his team at Seoul National University had created six patient-specific stem cell lines, but they became contaminated. They reported the breach to the government and rescued two batches which they stored temporarily at their partner lab in Mizmedi Hospital. After Hwang's lab was cleaned and new sterilization procedures put into place, the stem cell lines came back to Hwang's lab. His team then went on to create six more...