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Verdict: Hwang's human stem cells were all fakes

Korean scientist did not clone a human embryo but did clone a dog.

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Cyranoski, D. Verdict: Hwang's human stem cells were all fakes. Nature 439, 122 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439122a

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