S. Korea OKs stem cells again
After a three-year moratorium on human stem cell research, South Korean officials gave the go-ahead to a new research project involving human eggs today (Apr. 29) provided that the research meets certain provisos. A national bioethics committee effectively banned research using human eggs in 2006 after Hwang Woo-Suk, a leading stem cell researcher formerly at Seoul National University who claimed to have created the first human stem cells from cloning, was shown to have manipulated and falsifie
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**__Related stories:__***linkurl:Hwang Woo-suk's new pet project;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54648/
[15th May 2008]*linkurl:All Hwang human cloning work fraudulent;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/22933/
[10th January 2006]*linkurl:Hwang faked results, says panel;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/22870/
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