Thursday, August 02, 2007

Stem cell case may have missed advance

Source: Associated Press
Date: August 2, 2007

Summary:

Remember the spectacular South Korean stem cell fraud of a few years ago? A new analysis says the disgraced scientist actually did reach a long-sought scientific goal. It's just not the one he claimed. The new study suggests Hwang Woo-suk and his team produced stem cells -- not through cloning as they contended -- but through a different process called parthenogenesis.