![]() ![]() ![]() The Screen Legend That Inspired Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain 'Past Lives': A Tour of New York City With Greta Lee and Celine Song As Hwang offers as a defense of sorts, “In science, you can’t dismiss a path just because it’s reckless.” He also says he would do it all again if given the chance. This reception continued even after journalists and a whistleblower from his own lab exposed him as an unethical fraud who illegally obtained human embryos, including many from his own graduate students, and lied about his misdeeds, even falsifying raw data. When Hwang announced his findings and advances in a pair of articles in the journal Science in 20, he was widely received as a God-like figure in his native country. Hwang’s claim that he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos held out a panacea of possible medical cures, as well as the specter of human cloning. ![]() (Hwang’s company, Sooam Biotech, has cloned hundreds of dogs.) But this was something different. Racing camels, dogs, sheep, pigs: all were successfully cloned. Hwang Woo-suk is a pioneer in the field of cloning, a scientist who became a national hero for his work in stem cell research and its vast medical possibilities. ![]() The new Netflix documentary King of Clones presents a smart look at this dichotomy, a cautionary tale of a Korean genetic researcher whose revolutionary findings proved too good to be true. We also fear that progress, its capacity for transgression in a field that the layperson struggles to understand. We revere scientific progress, for the promise it holds for a better life and for the possible future it represents. SKOREA-SCIENCE-GENETICS-CLONING-PETS - Credit: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images ![]()
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