Apology issued in clone scandal

SEOUL -- South Korea's top university issued a public apology today after an investigative panel ruled that disgraced professor Hwang Woo-suk faked all of his human stem cell research. Seoul National University president Chung Un-chan called Hwang's fraud ''an unwashable blemish on the whole scientific community as well as our country" and a ''criminal act in academia." Chung also said that he will seek punishment for Hwang and other researchers on his team.