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S. Korean scientist blames fraud on junior researchers
Associated Press
Published January 13, 2006
SEOUL, South Korea - Disgraced researcher Hwang Woo Suk asked forgiveness Thursday from fellow South Koreans for his fraudulent claims of human stem cell breakthroughs, but blamed the scandal on junior researchers who he said deceived him.
Hwang, in his first appearance in nearly three weeks, continued to insist he has the technology to use cloning to create human embryonic stem cells genetically matched to patients - saying he could do so in six months if he had enough human eggs.
Seoul National University, where Hwang is a professor, issued investigation results Tuesday saying he fabricated landmark claims in 2004 to have created the world's first stem cells from a cloned human embryo. It previously ruled that another Hwang article last year on patient-specific stem cells also was fake.
Prosecutors raided Hwang's home in southern Seoul on Thursday, seizing evidence related to their investigation into his stem cell fraud, prosecution official Kim Hang Soo said. The government has said it would launch an audit of national funds provided for Hwang's research.
Also on Thursday, the Washington-based journal Science, which had published Hwang's two bogus stem cell reports in 2004 and 2005, announced it was retracting both unconditionally.
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