1. Embattled Cloning Researcher Admits Problems but Stands by Results.
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Vogel, Gretchen, Normile, Dennis, Holden, Constance, Kim, Ji-soo, and Russell, Mark
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CLONING , *GENETIC engineering , *EMBRYONIC stem cells , *CELL membranes , *DNA fingerprinting , *DNA - Abstract
The article reports that the cloning researcher Woo Suk Hwang has admitted that his team made "human errors," and has asked Science to retract his celebrated paper reporting the creation of patient specific embryonic stem (ES) cells. In the 2005 paper, the group reported that they had established 11 ES cell lines from embryos cloned from patients. Meanwhile, other scientists expressed dismay and confusion at the latest developments but said other labs will continue the work. Further, observers are now questioning other papers by Hwang and his group, including the 2004 paper in Science reporting the first cloned ES cells and a report in Nature this year describing the first cloned dog
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- 2005