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NEW YORK, Jan 2 Asia Pulse - The U.S. journal Science will take time a little more than the originally expected schedule to retract South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk's discredited stem cell paper published in its May issue, the New York Times said Saturday.
The journal's editor in chief, Donald Kennedy, said in a statement released Thursday that the retraction could be possible as early as Saturday.
However, according to the New York Times, the editors of the journal Science are finding it hard to set the record straight because the proposed retraction did not include information newly revealed in South Korea at a news conference on Thursday.
Until then, it had seemed possible that Hwang's group had created 2 cloned stem cell lines, not 11. On Thursday, the investigators in Seoul said that even those two were not clones.
Science sought confirmation of the news reports from the investigative panel at Seoul National University (SNU) where Hwang worked. The SNU panel announced that there were no patient-matched stem cells developed by Hwang when he submitted the paper.
Katrina Kelner, a deputy editor at Science, was quoted Friday as saying, "The wording of the retraction is not correct (due to the new information from Seoul)."
Now the staff needs to meet ...
Source: HighBeam Research, SCIENCE TO TAKE MORE TIME IN RETRACTING HWANG'S 05 PAPER: REPORT.