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  • South Korea Cloning Scandal - ‘Hwang Forced Researcher to Donate Eggs’

    01/03/2006 12:22:02 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 4 replies · 377+ views
    The Korea Times ^ | January 3, 2006 | Kim Tae-gyu
    Korean TV station MBC Tuesday dealt another blow to the country’s cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk claiming he had forced his junior researcher to contribute eggs by using authorship as a carrot. MBC made the claim in its investigative program, ``PD Notebook,’’ which resumed after a four-week suspension caused by its aggressive position on Hwang’s controversial stem cell research. ``Hwang’s team used more than 1,600 eggs obtained from a total of 86 donors for their stem cell papers featured by the U.S. journal Science in 2004 and 2005,’’ MBC producer Choi Seung-ho said. Hwang claimed to have harvested the first-ever...