Since the inception of BioEngineering, there has been ethical and societal debates on the morality and the legality of what scientists and companies do in order to innovate. This section covers the multiple cases that changed and shifted the general attitude towards the ethics of BioEngineering.
Hwang Woo-suk, a South Korean scientist, gained fame for claiming to have created human embryonic stem cells through cloning. In 2005, it was revealed that he had fabricated his research data. He was convicted of fraud and embezzlement, leading to the retraction of his work and a loss of credibility in the scientific community.
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