Latest on the South Korean Cloning Scandal

December 12, 2005

South Korea’s Hwang Returns to Hospital
(The Associated Press)

South Korean stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk briefly left a hospital Monday and made a tearful return to work after being treated for extreme stress brought on by an ethics scandal over his groundbreaking research. By the end of the day, however, Hwang had returned to the hospital for unspecified reasons, said Seoul National University spokesman Lim Jong-pil. He had been hospitalized since Wednesday, and it wasn’t immediately known how long he would stay.

The university, where Hwang works, also launched an investigation into the controversy over the veracity of his work.

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