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All Stem Cell Data Fake, South Korea Panel Finds
a.. There's no evidence to back cloning research by Hwang Woo Suk. Experts say intense competition may drive scientific fraud.
By Karen Kaplan and Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writers
South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo Suk never made any of the 11 stem cell lines he claimed were derived from the DNA of sick and injured patients, an expert panel investigating the controversial scientist said today.
Roe Jung Hye, Seoul National University's research chief, said the panel could find no evidence to support any of the claims in a blockbuster study Hwang published in May. The research was hailed at the time as a milestone in treating patients with spinal cord injuries and diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes.
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Last week, the panel announced that nine of the 11 stem cell lines Hwang claimed to have created did not exist, and it said today that the other two were actually human egg cells from a Seoul hospital.
As the panel continues to examine whether Hwang succeeded in producing the first human embryo clones or the first cloned dog, scientists, patients and others around the world are contemplating a more fundamental question:
Why did he do it?
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