DNA Report Supports Prof. Hwang’s Claim of Creating Patient-Tailored Stem-Cell Lines
DNA test results showed samples from Prof. Hwang Woo-suk’s laboratory matched the body cells of the patients, which could mean that Hwang’s team has at least partially succeeded in creating patient-tailored stem-cell lines, according to news reports in cable channel YTN.
Quoting unnamed sources at Seoul National University, which is in charge of conducting investigations in Hwanggate, news cable channel YTN said that the results received from three separate agencies indicated that the five samples preserved frozen since March had identical DNA structures with the body cells. The cells, however, cannot be regarded as complete stem-cell lines because they can die before evolving into further stages.
The five samples were not included in the Science article, as it was made after the submission of the paper in March, according to the panel. Hwang himself insisted in a press conference on Dec. 16 that the five samples will prove the presence of so-called “source technology” of human stem cell cloning, even though he did fake other samples.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:36 am
[...] As reported before Dr. Hwang was able to successfully clone Snuppy, a fact confirmed by the findings of investigative panel at the Seoul National University. Scientist Hwang Woo Suk was found to be directly involved in the egg donation of his junior researchers and even accompanied them to the hospital where their eggs were removed according to Jeong Myung Hee, head of the investigative panel. [...]