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Authors of controversial STAP stem cell study author correct 2011 paper

There have been a number of developments in the unraveling of two Nature studies out of the RIKEN Institute in Japan and Harvard purporting to show an easy way to create stem cells. There was an...

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Waseda University checking dissertations for plagiarism in wake of STAP stem...

Waseda University in Japan says it will be vetting every doctoral dissertation it awards its graduate-level students in Advanced Science & Engineering* for signs of plagiarism, according to a...

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Obokata agrees to retract one of two STAP stem cell papers in Nature: Reports

The Kyodo News service has reported that Haruko Obokata has agreed to retract one of the two Nature papers on an easy method of making stem cells. According to the report: Embattled Japanese scientist...

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Obokata agrees to retract both STAP stem cell papers: Report

Last month we wrote that Haruko Obokata, the Japanese stem cell researcher whose work is under a cloud of suspicion, had agreed to call for the retraction of one of two disputed Nature papers about her...

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STAP stem cell papers officially retracted as Nature argues peer review...

A significant chapter of the nearly six-month saga of the STAP stem cell controversy has come to an end, with Nature running retraction notices for the two papers involved. The journal has also...

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STAP stem cell co-author commits suicide: Reports

In a stunning and tragic development, a co-author of the now-retracted Nature papers claiming to have found an easy way to create stem cells has committed suicide, according to news reports in Japan....

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Harvard stem cell scientist Vacanti taking leave in wake of STAP retractions

Charles Vacanti, a Harvard anesthesiologist and stem cell pioneer whose name appeared on both retracted STAP stem cell papers, is giving up his post as chair of anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s...

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“Truly extraordinary,”“simply not credible,”“suspiciously sharp:” A STAP stem...

Retraction Watch readers are of course familiar with the STAP stem cell saga, which was punctuated by tragedy last month when one of the authors of the two now-retracted papers in Nature committed...

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“Potentially groundbreaking,”“highly provocative:” Nature STAP stem cell peer...

A day after we published the cover letter and peer review reports about the STAP stem cell paper rejected by Science, Science‘s news section has published the same material for the version rejected by...

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STAP stem cell researcher Obokata loses another paper

The first author of two high-profile Nature retractions about a technique to easily create stem cells has lost another paper in Nature Protocols. Haruko Obokata, once “a lab director’s dream,”...

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