Ten years ago, Woo Suk Hwang rose to the top of his field before fraud and dodgy bioethical practices derailed his career. Can a scientific pariah redeem himself?
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Cyranoski, D. Cloning comeback. Nature 505, 468–471 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/505468a
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