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"The stem cells do not exist", announced Chung Myung-hee, chairman of the Seoul National University investigative panel at a press release of the committee's final results, referring to the stem cells Prof. Hwang Woo-suk claimed to have extracted from cloned human embryos, and thus dealing the final blow to the already disgraced stem cell researcher./Yonhap
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A Seoul National University panel released its final investigative report into the authenticity of Dr. Hwang Woo-suk's stem cell research on Tuesday. The panel said that Dr. Hwang's team was found to have fabricated data included in a 2004 Science article, in which the team claimed to have produced the world's first cloned human embryo.
The SNU panel also said all stem cells used in Dr. Hwang's research were not from patient-tailored stem-cell lines, contrary to what he claimed in a landmark 2005 paper published in the journal Science. But the panel has found Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog was indeed created from cloned stem cells of the donor dog, Thai.
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office, meanwhile, has launched an investigation into the alleged swapping of cloned stem cells in Dr. Hwang's research.
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