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2009-09-09 | permalink
Prosecutors demanded a four-year prison term Monday for a South Korean scientist disgraced in a cloning scandal that shook the international scientific community and led to his trial on fraud and other charges. Hwang Woo-suk was fired from the prestigious Seoul National University after purported breakthroughs — including the claim of producing a human embryo through cloning and recovering stem cells from it — were deemed bogus in 2005, when a key paper was found to contain fake data.
2009-09-09 | permalink
Prosecutors demanded a four-year prison term Monday for a South Korean scientist disgraced in a cloning scandal that shook the international scientific community and led to his trial on fraud and other charges. Hwang Woo-suk was fired from the prestigious Seoul National University after purported breakthroughs — including the claim of producing a human embryo through cloning and recovering stem cells from it — were deemed bogus in 2005, when a key paper was found to contain fake data.
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