SHAMED South Korean cloning researcher Woo Suk Hwang faked all his research on cloned human stem cells, according to the final report of a probe into Hwang’s work. He is now facing a criminal investigation for fraud.
Besides the already discredited May 2005 paper in which Hwang and his team said they created 11 stem cell lines tailored to individual patients (Science, vol 307, p 1777), an investigative panel from Seoul National University found no evidence that Hwang created the first human embryonic stem cell line from a cloned embryo, as he claimed in 2004 (Science, vol 303, p…
