The Open Access Interviews: Publisher MDPI – by Richard Poynder
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The ATG NewsChannel presents the second interview in a series being posted by Richard Poynder on his Open
The ATG NewsChannel presents the second interview in a series being posted by Richard Poynder on his Open
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, or more usually MDPI, is an open…
The year 2014 was one of extremes for Haruko Obokata. A year of high highs and even lower lows. Barely 30 years old, she was…
The spectacular fall of the Japanese scientist who claimed to have triggered stem cell abilities in regular body cells is not…
The spectacular fall of the Japanese scientist who claimed to have triggered stem cell abilities in regular body cells is not…
An investigatory panel hired by the Riken Institute recently issued reports finding that STAP “acid bath” stem cells were, in…
My feature article about the work of Yoshiki Sasai, the Japanese stem cell research who died earlier this week, will be…
An author of the retracted Nature papers on STAP cells (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cells) has committed…
In late January of this year, two papers published side-by-side in the journal Nature caused a wave of hype in the biology…
基本情報:若山さんは、STAP細胞に関する実験で、キメラマウスの作製とSTA
Last month we wrote that Haruko Obokata, the Japanese stem cell researcher whose work is under a cloud of suspicion, had agreed…
“I do not know if there is any real data in these two papers,” said Yamanashi University cloning pioneer Teruhiko Wakayama to…
Embattled stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata from the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Japan has agreed, albeit…
Reports in Japan suggest Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, has agreed to retract one of…
Reports in Japan suggest Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, has agreed to retract one of…
The Kyodo News service has reported that Haruko Obokata has agreed to retract one of the two Nature papers on an easy method of…
This post is designed to allow our readers to convert the full issue into a single PDF file, that can be read offline or in…
For a moment, the world was astonished. But looking beyond the surface, it was something that was not clear. The STAP Cell fever…
Bad behaviour is omnipresent in science. It encompasses everything from outright scientific fraud, such as falsifying data, to…
By Alan…
4月16日の笹井芳樹博士の会見をきっかけに、論文の著者、オーサー
The scientist who led the research on STAP cells (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cells) has apologized for…
Das japanische RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology äußerte sich am 1. April zu Vorwürfen und Bedenken, die bezüglich zwei…
In light of a press conference yesterday announcing two counts of deliberate misconduct, Riken Institute brass want co-authors…
Das japanische RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology äußerte sich am 1. April zu Vorwürfen und Bedenken, die bezüglich zwei…
The Japanese research institute RIKEN has completed its investigation…
In light of a press conference yesterday announcing two counts of deliberate misconduct, Riken Institute brass want co-authors…
Committee in Japan says it found evidence of falsification and fabrication offences that constitute research misconductA young…
“Very sad results,” said cloning pioneer Teruhiko Wakayama about the latest troubling development in the STAP (“acid bath”…
Papers describing acid-bath technique under more scrutiny after institute’s investigation finds errors in methodology. Read…
The kidney regeneration bracket is full of heavy weights as usual! However, not being in the field myself one team jumped out…
Alleged research misconduct leads to public uproar. Less than 2 months ago, a major scientific discovery was made in stem cell…
By Jun Seita, M.D., Ph.D. Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of…
By Jun Seita, M.D., Ph.D. Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of…
The Japanese research institute RIKEN has released early results of its investigation into allegations of misconduct leveled…
Image: Shutterstock/Protasov ANThis January, Japanese biologist Haruko Obokata published two papers in Nature that were hailed…
【早稲田大学コピペ博士】小保方晴子が実験そのものをやらずに博士
Der japanische Forscher Teruhiko Wakayama hat die Ergebnisse einer bahnbrechenden Stammzellenstudie aufgrund von Zweifeln an…
Not yet clear whether this groundbreaking research which was published in Nature was too much wishful hopes and thinking, “just…
La nouvelle avait fait beaucoup de bruit, pas plus tard qu’en janvier : une équipe japonaise était parvenue à reprogrammer des…
Cells Weekly is a digest of the most interesting news and events in stem cell research, cell therapy and regenerative medicine.
The STAP stem cell saga is like something out of a soap opera. Maybe we should call it “As the Stem Cell World Turns”. See the…
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A startling new finding that acid treatment can create stem cells has come under intense scrutiny by the scientific community.
In January 2014, the two papers “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” and “Bidirectional…
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Labs globally are electrified by the notion that just “stressing out” ordinary adult cells may transform them into…
Scientists have made the surprising discovery that ordinary cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent by subjecting them…
The genesis of this post comes from a chance viewing of a colleague’s comment on Linkedin, possibly the first time I’ve ever…
Caption: A new type of stem cells, called STAPs. Credit: Haruko Obokata, RIKEN Ctr. for Dev. Biol., Kobe…
前回は小保方博士が幹細胞を細いガラス管に通して選り分けているときガラス管を通した細胞には幹細胞があったのですが、ガラス管を通す前の細胞には幹細胞が見付からなかった、というところまででした拙ブログ『簡単!STAP細胞講座(3)STAP細胞発見前夜』今回はその続…
The advent of such techniques as CRISPR has people thinking again about gene therapy, and no wonder. This has always been a…
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Editor’s note: What follows is a guest post. Michael Zhang is an MD-PhD student studying at the University of Louisville School…
The whole week, discovery of new way to generate pluripotent stem cells, has dominated the news. Japanese scientist Haruko…
すごいニュースが飛び込んできましたね『STAP細胞「大変革」 世界が興奮、米指導教授も称賛』Obokata H, et al. (2014)“Stimulus-Triggered Fate Conversion of Somatic Cells into…
Albert Einstein College of Medicine The development of human embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to form any cell…
Albert Einstein College of Medicine The development of human embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to form any cell…
Ça, c’est le genre de découverte qui, à terme, pourrait changer la face d’une partie importante de la médecine. Une équipe…
Chimeric mouse embryo generated from STAP cells (credit: RIKEN) Breakthrough findings by Haruko Obokata and colleagues at the…
酸などのストレスを与えることで細胞が初期化されるという、けっこう衝撃的な研究成果が理化学研究所らのグループにより発表された。 体細胞の分化状態の記憶を消去し初期化する原理を発
A hot new field in stem cell research has been induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, where adult tissues (such as skin) can be…
Update: see more thoughts on STAP stem cells here. In two Nature papers (here and here) published today researchers report the…
Acid technique could lead to new era in regenerative medicineA radical and remarkably easy way to make cells that can grow into…