BMJ  2006;332:7 (7 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7532.7

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Korean stem cell pioneer resigns

Hong Kong

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Passengers on an underground train watch a televised press conference in which Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean pioneer of stem cell research, announced his resignation from his post as professor of the college of veterinary medicine at Seoul National University. His decision came after a university panel investigating his work announced that he had faked the results in a landmark paper published online in Science last May (2005;308: 1777-83)[Abstract/Free Full Text].

A team led by Professor Hwang claimed that it had produced patient specific embryonic stem cells derived from 11 human blastocysts, but the panel initially reported that in at least nine cases the results had been falsified and announced later that all 11 were false.

Credit: HAN SANG-KYUN/AP/EMPICS

 

The panel found that the stem cells had come from a fertilised egg produced at a Seoul hospital, not by Dr Hwang's team. Professor Hwang maintained that his . . . [Full text of this article]

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