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Published online 23 December 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051219-17
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Investigation says Hwang lied
No evidence found for nine out of 11 stem cell lines.
A rapid investigation of stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang's work at Seoul National University has delivered a damning initial verdict: large amounts of the data in his 2005 landmark paper on patient-specific stem cells were fabricated.
Further investigation is expected to reveal whether any of the patient-specific stem-cell lines that Hwang claimed to have created are in fact what they purported to be1.
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