A Decade After Committing Massive Fraud, A Cloning Scientist Is Back To Work
Snuppy At the time of the findings that Woo Suk Hwang's human stem cell papers were faked, his lab also created the world's first cloned dog, named Snuppy. Seoul National University verified that the Snuppy work was genuine. Seoul National University Ten years ago, South Korean geneticist Woo Suk Hwang made big news, twice. First, scientists heralded him for creating a population of stem cells from human embryos, which scientists had hoped could eventually go into personalized stem cell therapies. Then, Hwang hit the headlines again when investigations found that he made up the data in two of his landmark papers. It's unlikely the cells he made were true clones, although he maintains they were. In addition, his students told reporters they donated their own eggs for Hwang's experiments—a...