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February 17, 2006
Hwang Researchers Never Cloned Embryonic Stem Cells
Seoul, South Korea (LifeNews.com) -- Government prosecutors investigating the faked embryonic stem cell research supposedly conducted by Hwang Woo-suk and his colleagues have confirmed that his team never created patient-specific embryonic stem cells that would supposedly overcome rejection issues.
Park Han-cheol of Seoul District Prosecutors' Office, who is leading the Hwang probe, told the Korean Herald newspaper, "there is no possibility that NT-1 is a cloned somatic stem cell."
"There is no doubt about this in the scientific field," he added.
The NT-1 cell formed the basis of the cloning claims in the 2004 paper Hwang's team published in the medical journal science that has been revoked. Hwang and his associates also claimed to have cloned a human embryo and a paper on that topic has been withdrawn as well.
Posted by Blogorithm at February 17, 2006 08:43 AM
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