Is this close enough to be politically incorrect?
Posted on 12/30/2005 10:57:25 AM PST by neverdem
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 29 - Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's disgraced star scientist, could present no evidence to corroborate his landmark claim that he had cloned human embryos and extracted from them stem cells that genetically match patients, a university panel said today.
The announcement by the panel, from Seoul National University where Dr. Hwang did his research, suggested that he did not just grossly exaggerate his work in an article published in the journal Science in June, but fabricated the entire paper.
"So far we could not find any stem cells regarding Dr. Hwang's 2005 paper that genetically match the DNA of patients," Roe Jung Hye, the university's dean of research affairs, said in a statement. "According to our judgment, Dr. Hwang's team doesn't have scientific data to prove that it has produced such stem cells."
There was no immediate comment from Dr. Hwang, who apologized last week for falsifications in his paper and resigned from the university.
The latest revelation added more skepticism to his persistent claim that he at least had the technology to clone human embryos and extract stem cells from them, which would be a breakthrough in the quest to help patients with hard-to-treat diseases to produce their own, regenerated tissues. Stem cells are master cells that can evolve into blood, liver, muscle and other cells.
If his claim proves false, the goal of such treatment, known as therapeutic cloning, may be considerably further off than it seemed a few months ago, when Dr. Hwang's fame was at a peak.
Hopes for therapeutic cloning soared after he published a stunning paper in Science in February 2004, claiming to be the first to clone a human embryo by transferring an adult cell's nucleus into an egg, and extracting a stem cell line from it.
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Dang, Hwang! perhaps two Hwangs could make it right.........
Happy New Year!
When he walked into the room, they shouted "Hwang, Woo Suk!"
How can those benighted, troglodytic pro-lifers quibble over stem-cell rhetoric? It's science!
If it had been cats they might have believd him..........
Is this close enough to be politically incorrect?
When we contacted Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, they were quoted as saying "we don't have a problem with that. Really."
I'm of Asian ascent and I am not offended........You must try harder, Grasshopper.........
Fake, but accurate..........
Nyuk, Nyuk,Nyuk!
Good
Journalists, scientists... amazing what these people can get away with. Otherwise, why would they try?
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