A research panel for Seoul National University says that Dr. Hwang Woo-suk fabricated all the evidence used to support a claim he cloned embryonic stem cells. The conclusion destroys any shred of evidence that he had made a major breakthrough in science, as he had claimed earlier in 2005. Researchers had hoped that there was some data to back up his cloning claim. The panel's final report delivers a black eye to Korea after the country had championed Hwang as a symbol of its advance in science.
- read this article [1] from The New York Times
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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10clone.html?hp&ex=1136955600&en=2c12f1155d68784c&ei=5094&partner=homepage