SKorea research centre cautious after clone errors

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SEOUL, April 6, 2007 (AFP) — South Korea's leading scientific research centre said Friday it would be more selective in making papers public after mistakes were found in an article on the cloning of wolves.

Seoul National University (SNU) said it would not bring papers by its professors to the media's attention unless they have been published by leading academic journals.

A team led by Lee Byung-Chun of the university announced last week it had cloned two wolves in 2005, attracting much publicity.

Lee's paper was later found to contain a simple mistake in calculating the success rate of his attempts the same year to clone dogs.

This error understated the past success rate and made the apparent technical progress the team had made since then more...