Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005.
Hwang required many human oocytes in his research on stem cells and cloning. During his research, Hwang acquired large collection of oocytes. He claimed to have used 242 oocytes from sixteen volunteers in his 2004 publication, and 185 eggs from eighteen women in the 2005 article.In March 2004, Hwang’s research team had published another apparently important paper in which they claimed to have established one cell line with the nuclear DNA from a research subject (Hwang et al 2004). If these two papers had been valid, they would have represented a significant step forward in human embryonic stem cell research, since.The papers on human ES cell isolation and cloning (Hwang et al., 2004, 2005) were retracted after discovery of significant fraud (Kennedy, 2006). The long-term goal of therapeutic cloning is to provide data on ES cell growth and differentiation, which may make it possible to stimulate proliferation and differentiation of endogenous stem cells and reparation of sick stocks.
Two breakthrough articles about stem cell technology from a Korean laboratory headed by Woo-Suk Hwang, published in Science, appeared to be almost completely fabricated and were therefore retracted. 14 The original source papers were published as follows: Hwang W-S, et al. Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst.One South Korean doctor is ahead of many others in his field as his research is may cases has shown to be exceptionally promising, “Hwang 's research took the first steps in therapeutic cloning, a process in which stem cells (cells that can become any one of the 200 different cell types present in the human body) are taken from a cloned embryo.
Yes, human cloning should be allowed (2000) Patricia Baird, a medical genetics professor, has a strong and clear discussion on human cloning. In the second article, a moral philosopher Chris MacDonald answers Beard's opposition to a human clone and advocates caution, not a full ban.
