Another stem cell paper retracted

[WhiteTara]

corruption abounds everywhere.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06094/679215-82.stm
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

An international scientific journal yesterday became the second publication to retract a paper on embryonic stem cells authored by South Korean researchers, including two who formerly worked at the University of Pittsburgh.

The two researchers, Kim Sun-jong and Park Jong-hyuk, were also co-authors of two fraudulent papers by disgraced stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk that appeared in the journal Science in 2004 and 2005.

They were Pitt research associates of Dr. Gerald P. Schatten, director of the Pittsburgh Development Center and Magee-Womens Research Institute, who was senior author of the May 2005 paper by Dr. Hwang in the journal Science, which has since been retracted.

Stem Cells' retraction, the first in its 24-year history, was announced yesterday in a statement by the journal's editors, who said the article contained photographs purported to be different embryonic stem cells grown under different conditions when, in fact, they were duplicate shots of the same cells.

In addition, some of the photographs had been used with one of the discredited papers appearing in Science.

[MADem]

1. Way to go, butt heads!!!

Henceforth, any stem cell research coming out of S. Korea is going to be looked at sideways, backwards, upsidedown and up the wazoo, thanks to these putzes. Any good idea will be met with "Yeah, sure, pal!"

I can imagine the irritation of the S. Korean scientists who AREN'T screwing up.

[Zookeeper]

2. This is why I never get excited when someone tells me...

about some new "breakthrough" in the search for a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. I'll get excited when my daughter's doctor tells me there is a cure.

[Kailassa]

3. "Almost there!!!" attracts the funding.

[Zookeeper]

4. Good point.

Personally, I just can't take the emotional rollercoaster, so I take all of the "breakthroughs" with a grain of salt.