SNU investigates wolf replication

Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea's leading university, said on April 9 that it has begun investigating the errors in the data of the newly released wolf replication work on the 26th. 3 past. The team, led by scientist Lee Byung-chun and Sin Nam-shik, said last month that they had created the first two cloned wolves in the world.

Two cloned wolves were introduced by Korean scientists last month.(Photo: AFP)

Notably, scientist Lee is a leading member of the research team led by the infamous scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

Mr. Kuk Young, head of SNU's research office, said the school will investigate the suspicion that the data of the project has been inflated to increase the success rate of the multiplication process. copy.

However, Lee said this was an unintentional error and asked Cloning and Stem Cells to revise the number in his research. In addition, according to Yonhap news agency (South Korea), Lee's team is also suspected of providing false information in a genetic analysis of two cloned wolves and the dogs that conceived them.

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