Australia Grants Stem Cell Line To Disgraced S. Korea Researcher
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
South Korea's disgraced stem cell scientist has been granted a patent in Australia for a line of cloned human embryo stem cells for research. Hwang Woo-suk was fired by Seoul National University after it was discovered he falsified parts of his groundbreaking research that gained international attention. He is still on trial in South Korea on charges of fraud and violating bioethics laws. The new stem cell line now protected in Australia is the same NT-1 line he worked on, but which was discovered to have been grown from unfertilized eggs, contrary to his claim to have produced the first cloned embryo. (Click here for more