An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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RYU, Young June

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Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst.

Science, 303, 1669-1674, 2004.

The authors in Korea, led by Woo-suk Hwang, reported the cloning of a human blastocyst using somatic cell nuclear transfer, and deriving pluripotent embryonic stem cells from that cloned blastocyst. In doing so they claimed to have cloned the first human being. Numerous extensive scientific investigations resulting from testimony of the second author, Young June Ryu, resulted in an official "Editorial Retraction" published in Science, 311, 2006, p.335.  At that time only 7 of the 12 co-authors of the paper agreed to retract their claims.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: Crimes / Frauds / Hoaxes, EMBRYOLOGY