Scientist Says Stem Cell Work Can Be Replicated

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk insisted that he had the technology to produce embryonic stem cells matched to different patients even though a panel of his peers said he lied about creating such cells, a newspaper reported.

A university panel said last week that Hwang did not produce any patient-specific stem cell lines as claimed in a paper published in May in the journal Science.

But Hwang stood by his work.

“I definitely have the source technology to produce tailored embryonic stem cells,” Hwang was quoted as saying in Beopbo, a South Korean Buddhist newspaper. “I can replicate the process anytime.”