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Prime Human Cloning Researcher Humiliated

Posted by Zonk on from the political-setback dept.

Starker_Kull writes "Today, the first scientist to clone human egg cells, Dr. Hwang Woo-suk, was forced to resign from his post for 'breaches of ethics'. It appears that the ethical breaches consisted of overzealous assistants who volunteered their own eggs for use. After Dr. Hwang declined the offer, the assistants secretly donated their eggs under false names. After Dr. Hwang discovered the deception, he tried to cover it up to protect his researchers - but the news eventually leaked out."

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  1. Re:But surely... by Oxygen99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, eggsactly...

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