The data . . . was intentionally fabricated, not an accidental error, and this constituted major misconduct.

It is our priority to figure out whether the data used in the experiments had been falsified or not.

Stem cells with DNA matching with patient tissues regarding the 2005 paper were not found. And it is the panel's judgment that Professor Hwang 's team does not have the scientific data to prove that they (patient-specific stem cells) were made.

All of it was fabricated. It was not manipulation of real data -- it was just complete fabrication.

After three different institutes finished analyzing DNA fingerprints from number 2 and 3 stem cell lines, it was found that the lines do not match patients' somatic cells.

There is sufficient evidence that results were deliberately manipulated, and Professor Hwang accepts this at some level. We don't think that the data in the 2005 Science study were incorrect because of simple mistakes.