Researcher Reportedly Forced to Donate Eggs After Mishap

The assistant researcher, Park Eul-soon, who admitted to donating her eggs for Dr. Hwank Woo-Suk's cloning research, but did not say she was coerced, now says that "she was forced to contribute her eggs after mistakenly spilling ova used for experiments in 2003," according to The Korea Herald. "'I regret that I did not stand up to Dr. Hwang,' MBC television station quoted her as saying in the e-mail." Park mysteriously disappeared from Pittsburgh just when the scandal was breaking and did not return to Seoul when her South Korean colleagues were being summoned back to South Korea. (via blog.bioethics.net)