Elf1 Cell Line May Help Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchScience 2.0When President Bush signed an executive order becoming the first to fund human embryonic stem cell research, he had made a compromise that navigated Federal law – his predecessor President Clinton’s Dickey-Wicker Amendment – the ethical concerns … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
File under too good to be true: Acid-bath stem cell paper may be retractedMedCity NewsIt’s unfortunate that a research group is stupid enough to submit ANY tentative data to a journal like Nature, especially this case, in particular, as they should have known that every top stem cell group would be trying this technique. I … Continue reading
RedOrbitJapanese scientists who in January announced they developed a new method to create stem cells using blood cells and acid are considering retracting their study. Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan announced … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Investigation finds data problems with stem cell breakthroughArs TechnicaIn mid-February, researchers reported a startling breakthrough: a wide variety of cells could be converted into a very flexible form of stem cell by placing them in a mildly acidic bath and then growing them in carefully controlled conditions. But we … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
stem–cell researchThe Seattle Times… investigating its stem–cell research. RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, said the institute is looking into “significant discrepancies” in the preparation of articles about the stem–cell research published in January in … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Study Called an Advance in Stem Cells Had FaultsNew York Times the main story. TOKYO — A study billed as a breakthrough in stem cell research contained a spliced image, material recycled from the lead author’s doctoral thesis and other mistakes, a Japanese research institute acknowledged on Friday. …read more &nbs… Continue reading
U.S. co-author against retraction of controversial stem cell papersThe Japan TimesWASHINGTON – A U.S.-based co-author of papers on presumably ground-breaking stem cell research announced Friday his opposition of a proposal to retract them. “In the absence of compelling evidence that the data presented is incorrect, I do not believe … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Fairfield vet hospital performs stem cell treatmentsWLWT CincinnatiOfficials said Woodridge Veterinary Hospital is one of the few places that have performed these procedures. On Friday Bosco, an 11-year-old Labrador, was in for surgery on his arthritic knees. Doctors took fat out of Bosco, extracted the stem cells and … …read more &nbs… Continue reading