Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Snuppy - cloned dog real

Cloners faked the theory, not the dog: inquiry
January 10, 2006 SMH

Snuppy ... the first male dog cloned from adult cells by somatic nuclear cell transfer.

Snuppy ... the first male dog cloned from adult cells by somatic nuclear cell transfer.

A team led by a once-heralded and now disgraced South Korean scientist faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells but did produce the world's first cloned dog, an investigation panel has found.

The panel at Seoul National University told reporters there was no data to support the papers produced by the team led by scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

The two papers were a 2004 report on producing the first cloned human embryos for research and a 2005 paper on producing the first embryonic tailored stem cells.

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