A collaborator of South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk, a hero in his country for his stem cell research, says his colleague has admitted fabricating some of his test results. In May, Hwang and his team published a landmark report in the journal Science announcing that they had created 11 lines, or colonies, of cloned human embryonic stem cells. This achievement made South Korea a leader in this field of research. But a co-author of the report, Roh Sung Il, told Korean television and newspapers that Hwang told him Thursday that most of the supposedly cloned lines were fakes and the fate of the others is unclear.
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