Editorial Retraction The January/February 2006 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics contains

and somatic cell donation consent procedures developed for the stem cell research program of Seoul National University (Hyun and Jung 2006). Drs. Hyun and Jung report that they were led to believe that these consent procedures were used by Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang and his colleagues to enroll all of the oocyte and somatic cell donors who provided the research materials reportedly utilized in the derivation of eleven patient-specific embryonic stem cell lines (Hwang et al. 2005). Following the acceptance and online publication of that manuscript, allegations about the veracity of the research performed by Dr. Hwang’s team surfaced. On January 10, 2006, the committee empowered by Seoul National University to look into these allegations concluded that the data published by Dr. Hwang and his colleagues were fabricated (Investigation Committee Report 2006). A similar report, issued by Korea’s National Board of Bioethics (KNBB) following their investigation of the Hwang lab’s oocyte donation procedures, raised additional concerns about the consent process. For example, Dr. Hwang was found to hav