Hwang faked clone work

[cstaylor]

Hwang Faked Stem Cell Research

Stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk admitted his landmark work was fabricated and agreed to request that the journal Science withdraw his paper on it, his Korean scientific collaborator said Thursday.

Let's see how fast the Korean public finds a way to extract their collective feet from their mouths.

[Greener]

Think Kim will threaten to nuke Tokyo again to save face???

[IkemenTommy]

When was the last time a Korean ever made any ORIGINAL, significant discovery or invention

[Greener]

Well they changed their spelling from Corea to Korea. Does that count?
:P

[IkemenTommy]

Actually, cloning and stem cell research are two different subjects..

[cstaylor]

[aljones15]

the stem-cell shit he did is still valid I beleive
it's just that he stole work from another scientest
and claimed it as his own in the cloning work.
He still managed to make the stem cell lines if
the international herald tribune is right, but he didn't
make as many as originally claimed, and he didn't make
them as effeciently.

This actually isn't very uncommon ethically, professors take
ideas and research from students all the time or even
their employees and fellows, although Hwang did seem to take
it to a certian high degree. I think this is what rabid nationalism gets you.

anyway, funny story.
one of those female researchers he "borrowed" eggs from
that created the first ethical debacle that the korean
press assured us had no problem with it... well she's
getting a degree from the unniversity of pennsylvania
and happens to be one of the people who's been critiquing
Hwang's claims in the U.S.

[Mulboyne]

Link will expire so whole article posted:

Yomiuri: Govt to set up sections to deal with falsified academic research
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry has decided to punish researchers at universities and other institutions for faking research, and will set up sections to accept complaints. In certain cases, the ministry will demand that government research funds be reimbursed. The policy was decided after the fabrication and falsification of data in research papers at domestic and foreign universities. The ministry will set up a section to accept accusations at universities and research institutions. In March, a special committee to supervise internal investigations will be established under a ministry council. Details of the system will be worked out, and punishment provisions clarified in guidelines for research funds in fiscal 2007, which is to be announced next summer.

Fabrication of research data is not a problem only in South Korea, where university researchers allegedly faked research data in creating embryo stem cells (ES cells) from patients for the first time. In Japan, fabrication of data for research paper on obesity at Osaka University was discovered this year. At Tokyo University, falsification of data on genetic research by top researcher is suspected. According to questionnaire by Science Council of Japan last year, four of 838 academic societies that answered the questionnaire reported there were cases of fabrication and falsification of data in the past five years, and 23 academic societies reported there were cases of plagiarizing in research papers in the same period. But punishments for those involved were light. They were punished only inside universities or were expelled from academic societies.

Worried that the ministry will give funds to what turns out to be illicit research, the ministry began studying stricter punishments in October. After the scandal in South Korea, the ministry has intensified the work. If any illegality is found in 12 fields of research, punishment will be meted out. Funds for these fields totaled 360 billion yen in the fiscal 2005. Those who did fraudulent research are deprived of qualifying for the ministry's research funds for a maximum of five years. In serious cases, the ministry will demand a refund.

Sections accepting accusations will be opened at universities and academic societies. The ministry will also open its own sections. Steps to protect whistle-blowers will be taken, so that investigations can be carried out easier. The ministry will request universities and research institutions to add lawyers and outside researchers to the sections to increase transparency of investigations.

[dingosatemybaby]

One certainly detects a degree of schadenfreude in the J-media.

[Taro Toporific]

One certainly detects a degree of schadenfreude in the J-media.

And visa versa...

Tokyo U. professor faked paper on enzyme experiment
The Japan Times Jan 22
An investigation panel at the University of Tokyo plans to make public this week a report indicating that Kazunari Taira, a professor of biochemistry engineering, fabricated a scientific paper on human enzyme experiments, sources said Saturday.
The paper was published by Taira, 53, in an overseas scientific journal in 2003 in which he stated that his research team had succeeded in having E. coli bacteria produce a human enzyme called Dicer -- so called as it dices RNA -- by implanting a Dicer gene in a plasmid.
If true, it would have been the first time that the gene had been successfully produced by E. coli bacteria.....more....

[Taro Toporific]

One certainly detects a degree of schadenfreude in the J-media.

"Schadenfreude"? Gee, I'm basking in it with this news confirming...

University of Tokyo report raises doubts over credibility of research papers
Mainichi, January 27, 2006
Kimihiko Hirao, center, dean of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering, discusses Taira's research papers at the university on Friday.
The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering on Friday threw doubt on papers published by Professor Kazunari Taira and other researchers, by announcing it could not confirm the results of experiments mentioned in the papers.
The papers discussed RNA, a nucleic acid similar to DNA from which protein is made. Taira is considered a world-class researcher in this field, but the latest announcement seems likely to raise doubts over the credibility of his research....more...

[Greji]

SEOUL (Reuters) - Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk will open a laboratory in Seoul next month to resume his work on animal cloning, and perhaps restart research on human embryonic stem cells, his lawyer said on Tuesday. more.....

His first project had better be to clone a prosecutor for his case!

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="7"]MAMMOTH HWANG![/SIZE]


Korean scientist tried to clone mammoths
And failed, if you're wonderingThe Register - Wednesday 26th July 2006 11:13 GMT
Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced Korean stem cell scientist, diverted private donations towards efforts to clone tigers and even mammoths, a court heard yesterday.
The wannabe John Hammond said his team procured mammoth tissue from glaciers and tried three times to clone the hairy pachyderms – but failed. He also tried to clone tigers, he admitted.
The cash used for the mammoth cloning effort came from a 1bn Won grant from SK Group which was earmarked for "peripheral activities related to the research".
The admission came in the third hearing in his trial for misusing and embezzling state funds and donations and violating bioethics laws....
...Yesterday, he said that while he had "cheated" he had been cheated too, with junior researchers leading him to think the team had made big breakthroughs.

[Mike Oxlong]

Figure this guy might run into some skepticism...?

SKorean scientists say cancer-killing virus developed

South Korean scientists have said they have developed a new genetically altered strain of virus which is highly efficient in targeting and killing cancer cells.

The new therapy developed by the team from Yonsei University uses a genetically-engineered form of the adenovirus, which normally causes colds.

The adenovirus was implanted with a human gene that is related to the production of relaxin, a hormone associated with pregnancy.

When injected into cancerous tumors, the virus quickly multiplies in the cancer cells and kills them, the team said.

The new adenovirus can target only cancer cells and does not harm normal cells, the team said.

Existing viral treatments fail to kill off all the cancerous cells.

"I believe we have found a way to overcome one of the great obstacles to finding a genetically altered viral cure for cancer," Yun Chae-Ok, one of the researchers, told AFP on Thursday.

Following three rounds of injections, more than 90 percent of cancer cells in the brains, liver, lungs and womb of mice disappeared within 60 days, the team said.

Clinical tests will be carried out early next year and last 18 months, Yun said.

The research results were published in the October 18 edition of the prestigious bimonthly Journal of the National Cancer Institute in the United States.

via Breitbart.com

[IkemenTommy]

He's baaack.. this time cloning a bitch

SEOUL, South Korea: An ex-collaborator of disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk claimed Monday that he succeeded in cloning a female dog after last year's breakthrough of creating the world's first cloned dog, which was male.

An Afghan hound, named Bona, was born on June 18 using cloning technology, said Lee Byeong-chun, a veterinary professor of Seoul National University. Two more of the same breed were born later, he said. DNA tests showed that the three female dogs are clones, he said.

Authenticity still not verified though...