He Got Sidetracked by the Fabrication

In an ironic twist, discredited stem cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk might have actually performed a biological first. Instead of having isolated stem cells from a cloned human embryo as he claimed, an analysis of Hwang's work, published in Cell Stem Cell, shows that his lab made parthenogenic stem cells — thought to be incredibly difficult in humans. Team leader George Daley told the BBC, "Unfortunately at the time they published their work they did not know what they had done so they had mistakenly isolated these parthenogenic embryonic stem cells, and yet misrepresented them as true clones.