Stem-cell pioneer accused of faking data

2005

South Korean television airs unconfirmed allegations over landmark research.

The credibility of work by Woo Suk Hwang, South Korea's high-profile cloning researcher, has again been called into question. News stations across Korea have broadcast allegations from a collaborator that the pioneering work in deriving stem cells tailored to individual patients, published by Science in May 2005, was based on fabricated data.