An associate of Wu Suk Hwang has accused the University of Pittsburgh's Schatten of coming up with the original idea to fake results of the clone/kill/harvest "patient specific" embryonic stem cells.
If you can't trust a colleague, who can you trust?
SEOUL, South Korea
An American collaborator of disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk suggested they fake some data for a 2005 paper, a news report said Thursday.
A senior researcher on Hwang's team has told prosecutors that he heard Dr. Gerald Schatten make the suggestion after learning that some patient-specific stem cell lines had died in January last year, Yonhap news agency reported.
It is not yet known if Hwang followed through on Schatten's suggestion. However, all his stem cell lines were later found to be fake.
Schatten, of the University of Pittsburgh, suggested Hwang write the paper as if the dead cell lines existed, said Yonhap, citing unidentified sources at the prosecutor's office investigating the scandal.
Schatten, a co-author of the since discredited article, made the suggestion when he met Hwang at a seminar, right after the stem cell lines died, Professor Kang Sung-keun of Seoul National University was quoted as telling investigators.
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