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The U.S. journal Science has no plans to retract a publication by stem
cell pioneer Prof. Hwang Woo-suk because of doubts over the ethics of
occyte procurement for the research it summarizes, the Washington Post
reported Tuesday. The daily quoted the editor-in-chief of Science, Donald Kennedy,
as saying no retraction of the scientific content would be called for,
but the journal could publish a correction of a disclaimer that no
women were paid for their egg cells after a Hwang collaborator admitted
paying donors. Roh Sung-il of the MizMedi fertility clinic said Monday he
paid the women about US$1,500 each out of his own pocket. ��Still at
issue is whether any of the women who gave up eggs for the research
were junior members of Hwang's laboratory staff, as some unconfirmed
reports have suggested -- an arrangement widely judged as unethical
because of the possibility of coercion,�� the daily concluded. ([email protected] )
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