Mr. Hwang does not create compatible stem cells for patients

Seoul National University yesterday (December 29) said the scientist Hwang Woo-suk did not create individual stem cells compatible with patients as he claimed.

Roe Jung-hye, a spokesman for Seoul National University investigating committee, said the investigation team discovered the stem cells that Hwang declared had been made in the Science paper in May 2005. Actually taken from fertilized eggs and not reserved for patients.

Roe Jung-hye answered the press during the press conference

This finding is important because scientists are looking at developing stem cells that are compatible with the patient's individual genes as a leap toward treatment for many diseases such as diabetes and disease. Alzheimer's - a form of dementia.

' The investigators did not find germ cells compatible with the patient's DNA as the article was published in May and they believed that Mr. Hwang's group had not achieved scientific databases to prove germ cells. was created , 'Roe said.

She said the information when the investigation team published the interim results of an investigation of research by Hwang scientist. Last Friday, the university reported that at least 9 of the 11 germ cell lines previously reported were fake, and they were continuing to investigate the remaining two lines of germ cells.

Mr. Hwang later apologized and resigned, but insisted that he would continue to research and develop technology to create stem cells compatible with patients. He also accused the germ cells created by him that were swapped by his collaborators.