Hwang scandal hit Korean biotech hard
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The upsurge in the Kosdaq stock exchange and South Korea's nascent biotech industry suddenly crashed in December 2005 when the magnitude of the scandal involving the research of Woo Suk Hwang, a stem-cell biologist at Seoul National University, became apparent. The immediate anxiety for the Korean biotech industry is that the government which had increased its expenditure on biomedical research might now divert it into other fields such as computer science or nanotechnology.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Too much, too soon
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South Korean researchers declared that they had created stem cell lines genetically matched to individual patients, a major step towards the use of stem cells in the study and treatment of disease. However in Britain, a team of biologists at the University of Newcastle merely described the creation of a cloned embryo, making the discovery public and thus damaging science and its public perception.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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An auspicious victory
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The US House of Representatives voted by 238 to 194 to reverse the policy restricting embryonic stem cell research that was implanted by US President George W. Bush in 2001. Fifty Republican members that voted for the change in policy state the fact that the public opinion is strongly in favor of allowing more of the research to go ahead.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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