Inan E-mail, the journalcitedthe highly publicized 2004 fraud that came out ofSouth Korea, where researchers led by Hwangwoo-Suk claimed to have produced stem cells from a clonedhumanembryo.
On Thursday a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK, which hopes to join South Korea in the forefront of stem cell research, also said they had successfully cloned an humanembryo.