The scientist became a national hero in Korea after he cloned a dog called Snuppy. Things kept growing, and Science published an article from him outlining how he'd cloned stem cells.

There's been huge amounts of hype over this, and today, Seoul National University confirmed that the cloned stem cells described in the Science paper never existed.

This is in addition to the donation of eggs by his junior researchers, that was discovered last month.

When suspicions first arose on a national news program, protests were so intense that advertisers cancelled their ads with the station, and the show had to be cancelled. There was a campaign to get this guy nominated for a Nobel prize etc.

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Originally posted by skdadl:
Peppermint, there was a short article in the G&M this week about this case, but it was inconclusive and I'm not sure I'm following all the details.

Like, eg: what would eggs from a female human have to do with cloning a dog?

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The guy in question claimed to have cloned a dog back in 2004, which was big news. In April of this year, he claimed to have cloned stem cells ( which is where the donated eggs come in). The cloned stem cells have been proven nonesistent and now people are wondering if that dog was really cloned.

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Originally posted by kiwi_chick:
He will probably be executed in public.

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Originally posted by Briguy:
Sounds like the biological equivalent of the Bre-X scandal. The bastards who engineered that fraud, those that weren't thrown from a helicopter, are free and living in the tropics. Hwang Woo-Suk is probably eyeing property on a nice extradition-free island around Thailand, if the pattern holds.

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[thread drift]The only Bre-x brass left alive is John Felderhof. Michael De Guzman died in 1997 when he jumped, or was pushed, from a helicopter in Indonesia. David Walsh, the founder of the company died in 1998 of a brain aneurysm.[/thread drift]

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Originally posted by mersh:

Why would you think that?

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Oops I thought it was North Korea.

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it is still uncertain whether or not Illmensee did clone three mice in 1979.

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