Snuppy takes centre stage
“WE HAVE no reason to doubt Schatten’s statement to us that his major contribution to the paper was a suggestion that a professional photographer be engaged, so that Snuppy would appear with greater visual appeal. It is less clear that this contribution fully justifies co-authorship.”
With this scathing remark, the reputation of US stem cell biologist Gerald Schatten takes a pounding at the hands of the committee set up to investigate Schatten’s association with disgraced cloning researcher Woo Suk Hwang. Schatten had contributed to a Nature paper with Hwang describing the creation of Snuppy, the…
