| ■ Journal Removes Wolf-Cloning Study From Web Site | 07.04.16 |
| A South Korean research report on wolf cloning has been pulled from the Web site of the international journal Cloning and Stem Cells, pending an investigation into incorrect data, Agence France Presse reported. In a message posted on its Web site, the journal said the study's authors had requested corrections and that the journal was awaiting results of a Seoul National University (SNU) investigation into the research. On March 26, an SNU team led by Lee Byung-Chun and Shin Nam-Shik announced that it had created the world's first two cloned wolves in October 2005. However, it's been revealed that the researchers provided incorrect data in a table analyzing the mitochondrial DNA sequence of the two wolves and their surrogate mother dogs. Another error describing the team's past attempts to clone dogs appeared to make its progress more impressive than it actually was, AFP reported. Researcher Lee said both errors were inadvertent. |