Woo Suk Hwang
The South Korean
stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang has been
at the centre of one of the largest investigations
of scientific fraud in living memory.
In January
2006, Hwang's home research institution, Seoul
National University, delivered a damning report
about Hwang's work on cloned human embryos,
concluding it was all based on fraudulent
data. The revelation has destroyed the best
evidence so far that stem cells can be extracted
from a clone matched to a specific patient.
With Hwang discredited, both the field of
therapeutic cloning and the public's trust
in science have suffered a serious setback.
Here Nature news
collects all our material about the case.
11 January 2006