Personal tools
Home Archive volume 05, 2006 issue 01, march 2006 New scandals – time to rethink the rules?
Document Actions

New scandals – time to rethink the rules?

21/03/2006

Abstract

The scandal of the “biotechnology evangelist” erupted in Korea at the beginning of the new year: a commission from Seoul National University announced that it had proof that Dr Woo Suk Hwang, considered one of the world’s foremost experts on cloning by nucleus transfer, had manipulated the data concerning experiments in human cell cloning and the creation of eleven lines of stem cells from human embryos published in two different articles in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005.

download