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Published online 11 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060109-8
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Why did Hwang fake his data, how did he get away with it, and how was the fraud found out?
In February 2004, an obscure laboratory in South Korea dropped a bomb on the scientific community: it had cloned a human embryo and extracted stem cells from it.
What followed over the next two years makes for an extraordinary tale of delusion and deception.
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