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...South Korean scientist, cloning pioneer and Snuppy creator, Woo Suk Hwang, things keep going from bad to worse. Last month, he had to admit that as part of the groundbreaking stem cell research he published in 2004, one of his colleagues had paid some women for their egg donations, and that two of the unpaid donors were Hwang?s own junior researchers. Amid the ethics controversy that ensued, Hwang was hospitalized for extreme fatigue and exhaustion. He was released earlier this week, only to find one of his former researchers on a national newscast claiming that the history-making stem...
...newscast was part of a multipart investigative series by Korea?s MBC-TV. Also in the broadcast, the researcher said that Hwang had told him to fabricate data in order to make it appear as if the South Koreans had created more stem cells, made from patients with diseases, than they actually had. ?This is something I shouldn?t have done,? said the researcher, whose face was not shown on camera and was only identified by his last name, Kim. ?I had no choice...
...separate interview, Roh Sung-Il, the doctor who had provided donated eggs to Hwang?s research, said that Hwang had asked Science, the journal that published his paper on patient-specific stem cells, to withdraw the publication. A spokesperson at the journal said that they had not yet received a retraction request, but have e-mailed all 25 co-authors asking for clarification of the fabrication allegations. Roh told news media that of the 11 stem cell lines created from patients with diseases, nine were fake. Whether the two remaining lines were valid, and photographed repeatedly to stand...
...These latest allegation comes just 24 hours after a former Hwang collaborator, Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh, charged Hwang with fabricating his data. Back in June, the two men had co-authored a paper published in Science that detailed how individual stem cell lines were created for 11 patients through cloning. When Hwang?s ethics breaches were uncovered last month, Schatten was already publicly distancing himself from his onetime colleague. But on Tuesday, Schatten, took the next step and asked that his name be removed from the work. His reasons? ?Careful re-evaluations of published figures...
...with different perspectives from the rest of the board—made up of Summers, four members of the economics and business world, and a former university president. In particular, her expertise in bioethics will be valuable as the University continues its push into the biological sciences and stem-cell research...