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President Lee Myung-Bak promised Monday to spend some $89 million restoring South Korea’s reputation as a leader in stem cell research, five years after a scandal tarnished its reputation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The government has decided to foster the stem cell industry as a core new growth engine,” he said in a radio address, adding about 100 billion won ($89 million) in state funds would be spent on research next year.<\/p>\n

Lee said South Korea, along with the United States, was a world leader in the field a decade ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Seoul’s efforts faltered, other nations streamlined regulations and aggressively expanded investment in research, Lee said.<\/p>\n

“We must restore our national fame as a stem cell powerhouse,”<\/strong> he said, adding the government would ease regulations and set up a state stem cell bank.<\/p>\n

Stem cells are master cells that can grow into any bodily tissue.<\/strong> Scientists hope the technology could one day provide cures for such hard-to-treat diseases as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

Hwang shot to fame in 2004 when he published a paper in the US journal Science claiming to have created the world’s first stem cell line from a cloned human embryo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a follow-up paper in 2005 in the same journal, he maintained that his team had developed 11 patient-specific embryonic stem cell lines.<\/p>\n

But in January 2006 investigators ruled that his findings were faked and said he had produced no stem cells of any kind. <\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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