Inquiry of Stem Cell Scientist Gets Underway
From Times Wire Reports
A panel questioned researcher Hwang Woo Suk, sealed his office and secured materials in his lab as it began an inquiry into allegations that he falsified research on embryonic stem cells that he said he had created in a scientific breakthrough.
Seoul National University began the inquiry after Hwang acknowledged there were “fatal errors” in a May article in the journal Science, which claimed that he and other researchers cloned human embryos and created 11 stem cell lines that genetically matched specific patients.
