The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Hwang Woo-suk, 56, to a two-year prison term, suspended for three years, the Yonhap news agency reported.

CNN: Disgraced cloning researcher convicted in South Korea

Nothing notable has occurred in embryonic stem cell research other than the scientific fraud committed by the infamous South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk.

BBC: Obama ends stem cell funding ban

Reports of Hwang Woo-suk's studies attracted worldwide attention and enthusiasm from researchers and patients, but in 2006 he acknowledged faking his findings after questions of impropriety emerged.

CNN: Experts: 'Minor errors' in stem cell study

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk today apologized for publishing two fraudulent papers on embryonic stem research, but he repeated earlier claims that he had been deceived by junior scientists.

NPR: Author of Debunked Stem-Cell Papers Apologizes

"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.

CNN: Cloning success hailed, feared

RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.

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