It Was Only a Matter of Time .. Hwang Woo-suk's House Raided
Related News: Stem Cell NewsSouth Korean investigators have raided the home of fallen stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk Thursday. The raid stems from their investigation into his research fraud.
This is now the second time prosecutors have searched Hwang's home to seize evidence after Korea's top university concluded that he had faked research results.
Furthermore, prosecutors also raided eight other homes and offices of Hwang's former colleagues.
A presidential advisory committee on bioethics stated in an interim report on Hwang's research that he had used 2,221 human eggs donated by 119 women and 62 of the women were paid for it.
Hwang had earlier claimed that he used a significantly smaller number of eggs.
"There were serious ethics problems" in Hwang's research, Lee Dong-ik, member of the National Bioethics Deliberative Commission, told The Associated Press.
Lee said Hwang is believed to have coerced junior researchers in his lab into donating their eggs for the research, a practice which is widely considered unethical.
Posted on February 2, 2006 08:14 PM