In 2004 and 2005, Hwang Woo-suk, a professor at Seoul National University, published two separate articles in the journal Science claiming to have successfully harvested pluripotent, embryonic stem cells from a cloned human blastocyst using SCNT techniques. Hwang claimed to have created eleven different patient-specific stem cell lines. This would have been the first major breakthrough in human cloning.Fischbak, Ruth L., John D. Loike, Janet Mindes, and Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning. The Cloning Scandal of Hwang Woo-Suk , part of the online course, Stem Cells: Biology, Ethics, and Applications However, in 2006 Science retracted both of his articles on account of clear evidence that much of his data from the experiments was fabricated.
In 2004 and 2005, Hwang Woo-suk, a professor at Seoul National University, published two separate articles in the journal Science claiming to have successfully harvested pluripotent, embryonic stem cells from a cloned human blastocyst using SCNT techniques. Hwang claimed to have created eleven different patient-specific stem cell lines. This would have been the first major breakthrough in human cloning.Fischbak, Ruth L., John D. Loike, Janet Min,des, and Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning. The Cloning Scandal of Hwang Woo-Suk , part of the online course, Stem Cells: Biology, Ethics, and Applications However in 2006 Science retracted both of his articles on account of clear evidence that much of his data from the experiments was fabricated.