Hwang Claims to Have Cloned Pig Stem Cells

May 15, 2009

Researchers at disgraced gene scientist Hwang Woo-suk’s Sooam Biotech Research Center claimed they have for the first time created cloned pig embryos and used them to make embryonic stem-cell lines. Scientists have successfully extracted stem cells from cloned primate embryos, as described in a study on monkeys published in the peer-review journal, Nature, in 2007. (Korea Times)