title: The Korean stem cell fiasco: shifting the focus.
abstract: No one could have failed to have seen the dramatic headlines surrounding Professor Woo Suk Hwang of the Seoul National University. Hwang claimed first place in the race to create patient-specific stem cells from cloned human embryos, only to be discredited shortly afterwards. This article discusses whether such high-profile negative publicity has damaged the regenerative medicine industry in general or whether it has merely shifted the stem cell focus away from South Korea.
authors.affiliation: Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK. chris.mason@ucl.ac.uk
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D005607:Fraud; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D011639:Public Opinion; D044968:Regenerative Medicine; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation