A California businessman has teamed up with disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk to create a dog-cloning project called “Best Friends Again”. “I know the association with Dr Hwang is going to be controversial,” said Lou Hawthorne, the CEO of a company called BioArts. “Our main concern is simply he’s the best when it comes to dog cloning and for that reason it behooves us to work with him.” Dr Hwang’s work in creating human embryonic stem cells was found to be fraudulent in 2004, but he did manage to clone the first dog, Snuppy.