The holiday period saw South Korea’s cloning pioneer, Woo Suk Hwang sink into deeper trouble, while false alarms over bird flu outbreaks continued.The landmark stem cell study, led by Hwang at Seoul National University, moved towards formal retraction by the journal Science after its results were revealed as entirely false. The paper purported to show how Hwang’s team cloned 11 human embryonic stem cell lines specific to 11 patients. Such a breakthrough would offer the promise of creating tailor-made tissues for patients...More
