Hwang Woo-Suk Research Team Violated Policies on Egg Collections

[Rosalinda]

Thank goodness the ethics committee did not buy Dr. Hwang’s excuses.

**Seoul, South Korea (LifeNews.com) – **A South Korean governmental committee issued a report last week on the human eggs Hwang Woo-suk’s research team collected for its embryonic stem cell research and human cloning experiments. The panel said Hwang’s team violated numerous guidelines and misled women…women were not adequately notified of the potential risks in the egg collection process and it said that written consent forms used in soliciting the women’s eggs were not properly submitted for review.
The committee also verified that Hwang did coerce two junior researchers in 2003 to donate their human eggs for his team’s studies

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[Rosalinda]

…On November 24 last year, Hwang held a press conference to acknowledge concerns that two of the junior researchers on his team had used their own human eggs in their research experiments, violating international guidelines.
Later, it was revealed that **Hwang pressured them agree to use their own eggs after they dropped a petri dish of human eggs **that were intended for the research…

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[Holly3278]

How sad and shocking.