Disgraced cloning scientist on fraud charges

South Korean prosecutors today indicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk for alleged fraud, embezzlement and bioethics violations in a scandal over faked stem cell research that shook the world scientific community.

However, prosecutors said they accepted one key argument Hwang has used in his defence that some of his now-discredited claims were due to a junior researcher deceiving him into believing his lab successfully created patient-specific stem cells from cloned embryos.