A CLONING dogfight is brewing, pitting disgraced cloning pioneer Woo Suk Hwang against former colleagues at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea.
Hwang faces charges of fraud, embezzlement and bioethics violations relating to his faked research on human stem cells. But his claim to have cloned dogs still stands up, and he is now working on animal cloning at the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Yongin, South Korea.
There he is cloning dogs for BioArts International, a firm based in Mill Valley, California. “He was a controversial choice,” admits BioArts CEO Lou Hawthorne. “But he’s the world’s undisputed master…
