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Nature 439, 768-769 (16 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439768b; Published online 15 February 2006

Disgraced cloner's ally is cleared of misconduct

Emma Marris & Erika Check

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But Hwang's US collaborator is chided for 'research misbehaviour'.

Gerald Schatten was the Western face of Woo Suk Hwang's stem-cell team, which was recently exposed for faking the results of cloning experiments. On 10 February, Schatten was cleared of misconduct by his university, but chided for taking so much credit for research in which he was barely involved.