Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh decided to end his association with the famed Korean scientist in November 2004 as a result of the questionable acquisition of eggs.
The first pushback for Hwang came when his long-time collaborator Dr. While Hwang claimed that the women who volunteered for the research did it for the cause, this revelation put under doubt the validity of the consent provided by the women. As early as May 2004, a report published on Hwang's research in Nature by David Cyranoski, who appears in the documentary film, claimed that junior female members of Hwang's team volunteered for the eggs.
By the time the second paper was published in 2005, questions about the ethical nature of Hwang's research had already started rising. Hwang and his team had established 11 embryonic stem-cell lines. The paper was later backed by another paper in 2005 claiming that Dr. Hwang sent shock waves throughout the scientific community when he decided to publish a paper in a scientific journal, Science, detailing the process of creating human embryos by cloning. RELATED: Nicholas Godejohn sentenced to life in prison for Blanchard murder in Greene CountyĬontact Chris Foran at (414) 224-2182 or Follow him on Twitter at at at the wide success that Hwang had achieved through his efforts in the field of cloning, there was a concerning trend in his work - the lack of published research backing his claims. RELATED: In 'extraordinary' case, Gypsy Blanchard gets 10 years for murdering mother RELATED: Gypsy Blanchard in new documentary: 'I couldn't just jump out of the wheelchair'
Godejohn was convicted of murder in November 2018 and, in February of this year, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Gypsy Blanchard pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.īefore Hulu's series, the case had already spawned several documentaries, and Gypsy Blanchard has given numerous interviews, including a lengthy segment on "Dr. The pair, who had left a trail of evidence leading to Wisconsin, were quickly arrested in Waukesha County and charged in Dee Dee's murder. After Godejohn killed Dee Dee, he and Gypsy took a bus back to Big Bend. Godejohn, who lived in Big Bend, had been brought to Missouri by Gypsy to kill her mother for putting her through years of unnecessary surgeries and medication, as well as physical and psychological abuse. Medical experts had begun suspecting that Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, in which a parent or caretaker makes up illnesses in a person under their care for sympathy and attention. (Spoilers: The following likely gives away a few of the plot points of the series.)
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