by Stephen Pincock
NEWS ANALYSIS	Hwang requests Science retraction Email: Stephen Pincock - Stephen.pincock@journalist.co.uk News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051216-02 Published   16 December 2005

Science said today (December 16) that Woo-suk Hwang, the Korean cloning researcher, has requested a retraction of a headline-grabbing paper on patient-specific human stem cells. The announcement follows a call for a retraction by co-author Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh and reports yesterday by Korean media that Hwang had admitted to a colleague that the paper was based on fabricated data.

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