Dr. Andy

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Korean stem cell finale

It looks like the end of the line for Dr. Hwang and his stem cells.

In memorium:
I see the summer children in their mothers
Split up the brawned womb's weathers,
Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs;
There in the deep with quartered shades
Of sun and moon they paint their dams
As sunlight paints the shelling of their heads
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As I read the article, the investigating panel has not ruled out that Hwang did create 2 stem cell lines, albeit using far more eggs than reported.

Why he would cheat to report 11 lines when even 2 lines would have been an enormous achievement? My answer is that they didn't even suceed with the first 2 lines. And probably past papers from the group are fraud too.

By the way, I can only imagine the panel was able to come to a conclusion so quickly because other researchers admitted outright fraud.

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