The HWANG strikes back!

From The Telegraph:

Hwang Woo-suk, who was stripped of his stem cell research license in 2006 over ethical issues now claims to have successfully cloned eight coyotes using techniques he developed in the first cloning of a dog in 2005.

"We injected a coyote's somatic cell into a dog's egg and produced a cloned embryo. The pups were born 60 days after we transplanted the embryo into the dog's uterus," he said.

Convicted of fraud and embezzling state funds in 2009, Hwang's disgrace set back South Korea's stem cell research by years after two journal papers hailed as landmark studies were found to have based on fabricated data.

Hwang, who has always denied any wrongdoing said he hoped to apply his procedure to bring back extinct animals in future.

"After six years of innovation, the success rate is now at 50 percent. We want to apply the cloning skills we acquired from working with dogs, to animals that are in danger of extinction," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8831510/Disgraced-scientist-claims-coyote-cloning.html