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Updated: 2006-01-13 10:36

Disgraced Hwang seeks pardon

韩国科学家黄禹锡12日举行记者招待会,对其干细胞研究成果论文造假一事再次向韩国国民道歉,表示对论文造假负有全部责任,但他坚持认为其干细胞研究成果被人"调包",并要求检察机关进行调查。

Disgraced Hwang seeks pardon
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologizes to nation at National Press Center in Seoul, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006.(AP)

A disgraced South Korean researcher asked his nation's pardon Thursday for fraudulent claims ofstem cellbreakthroughs, but said junior scientists deceived him and should share blame for the scandal.

"I ask for your forgiveness," Hwang Woo-suk told a nationally televised press conference from Seoul in his first public appearance in nearly three weeks. "I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry."

Seoul National University, where Hwang is a professor, on Tuesday issued a final report that he fabricated landmark published claims in 2004 and 2005 to have cloned a human embryo and extracted stem cells from it.

"The use of fake data ... is what I have to take full responsibility for as first author. I acknowledge all of that and apologize once again," Hwang said.

However, Hwang repeated his earlier claims that he was deceived about the data by two junior scientists at a partner research hospital, and said that he believed that his papers were legitimate when they were published.

He said the junior researchers lied to him when they said they successfullyculledand grew stem cells from human embryos cloned by Hwang's team.

Hwang also claims that some of his stem cells were maliciously switched by other researchers in his lab. He stressed again Thursday that this "is a matter that should definitely be cleared up."

Hwang, who at one point was on the verge of tears, also claimed that he has the technology to create patient-specific stem cells under the right conditions.

"I think we can create patient-specific stem cells in six months if eggs are sufficiently provided," he said.

Scientists hope one day to use such technology to treat afflictions includingAlzheimer's diseaseby allowing patients to grow replacement tissue using their own stem cells.

(Agencies)

 

Vocabulary:
 

stem cell: (干细胞)

cull: pick out from others; select(挑选)

Alzheimer's disease: (阿兹海默症,俗称老年性痴呆症)

 
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