Stem cell research getting more mousy

The South Korean stem cell scandal keeps getting worse. It now appears that star researcher Hwang Woo Suk (in photo) faked the findings on all 11 of the stem cell colonies that he claimed to create, rather than nine of them, as was first reported. What’s more, there are allegations that South Korean government officials attempted to bribe other scientists not to blow the whistle on the sham research, The Washington Post reported. As I noted on this blog a couple of weeks ago, when one researcher is that far ahead of all others, it should raise red flags — particularly when so much money and prestige are on the line.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee