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Hwang's fraud adds impetus to ES cell research

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To the editor:

Your editorial in the January issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 24, 1, 2006) states that the fabrication and falsification of data by Woo Suk Hwang is “a setback for the field,” but “has little bearing on the therapeutic potential of ES cells or on the value of research being done elsewhere.” I concur with this view. The retraction of Hwang's findings1 should not compromise the multiple, ongoing or nascent research projects using human embryonic stem (hES) cells around the world or the potential of hES cells as a patient-specific therapy. For those of us who are, or will shortly become, involved in human somatic cell nuclear transfer and embryonic stem (NTES) cell research, reconsidering our work because of a hoax in our field is unthinkable.

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