Tagged: STAP

STAP papers discredited, but science may be sound

See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles Although two high-profile research articles on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells were found to be flawed in an interim investigatory report by Riken, the state-affiliated institute stopped...

Was breakthrough premature?

See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles Aseries of questions and suspicions have challenged the validity of a scientific paper that reported that body cells taken from mice could be reprogrammed into stem cells —...

Stem cell papers had ‘grave errors’

See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles The president of the government-backed Riken institute admitted Friday there were ‘grave errors’ in two papers produced by its researchers on a possible method to create pluripotent stem...