Ethics in scientific research

摘要

This is a follow-up written on 'Tailored stem cells' (this issue, p. 1311), 'Tailored stem cells–too good to be true'! (http://www.shvoong.com/abstract.aspxid=147 779), while I was monitoring the ongoing controversy over ethics violation by South Korean stem cell research pioneer Woo-Suk Hwang towards the end of 2005. The scientific showdown between the two eminent and ambitious scientists and prior collaborators Woo-Suk Hwang of South Korea and Gerald Schatten of Pittsburgh, USA, has led to an unpleasant situation in the scientific research community world-wide.