외국언론들의 줄기세포

지금 외국 언론 기관들의 황우석 박사의 줄기세포에대한 mbc의 보도에

비상한 촉각을 곤두 세운채 추이를 지켜보고 있다. 이들 보도의 전체적 필링이

거의 mbc쪽으로 기울고 있다. 심지어 어떤외국 언론은 황박사가 명예의 유혹을

뿌리치지 못했다는 제목을 달기도 한다. dna와 줄기세포dna가 다르다고. 도무지

알 수 없는 어지러운, 제발 모든 것이 처음과 동일하기를...

S.Korea TV documentary to question stem cell study

Fri Dec 02, 6:26 AM ET

A South Korean TV network intends to air a documentary questioning the authenticity of a key study

by the country's pioneering stem cell scientist, who is already under pressure over ethical lapses,

producers said on Friday.

The MBC network previously broadcast a program questioning how human eggs used in the work of

Hwang Woo-suk, the scientist who brought South Korea to the global forefront of stem cell and

cloning research, were procured.

MBC did not say when it would air the second program, but producers would like to broadcast it soon.

The producers said they believed a study by Hwang's team could be flawed. In the study, published

earlier this year in the periodical Science, Hwang detailed how the team took skin cells from donors

to produce tailor-made embryonic stem cells.

The research made headlines around the world amid hopes that it could eventually help lead to cures

for deadly and debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's.

"The stem cells provided to us by Hwang's team did not always match the donor from which they were

supposed to have come, based on DNA testing," Choi Seung-ho, a chief producer at MBC, told a news

conference. Officials from Hwang's team said they were not aware of the details of the MBC investigation

and could not comment. Hwang's team has said their work was vetted by a strict and well-established system

of peer review before it was published.

Choi said the network was "not 100 percent sure" of its results, but testing done by independent labs on cells

provided by Hwang's team indicated that the donor's DNA and the DNA of the stem cell line did not match

in a few cases. Hwang is considered a hero in South Korea for making the country one of the world's leaders

in stem cell research.

After airing its first story last week about ethical lapses, MBC was picketed by protesters and some companies

pulled advertising. "MBC has become the subject of strict criticism with charges of us trying to undercut out nation's interest through our reports," Choi said.

Hwang apologized last week for ethical breaches in his research, in which two junior associates donated

egg cells to advance the team's studies. He also apologized for not releasing information about the incidents

in a timely fashion. The international scientific community frowns on donations by research associates

because of the possibility of coercion.

Since his apology, Hwang has been out of the public eye and, according to media reports, is staying at

a Buddhist temple. (reuter)