Stem Cell Shakedown CruiseCoranteCellular systems are flaky, fluky, and dependent on a lot of variables, some of which you might not even be aware of. An amazing result in an area as tricky as stem cell generation needs a lot of shaking down, and it seems that this one has gotten it … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Five Allegations Against Riken Stem–Cell Researcher in JapanWall Street Journal (blog)Japan’s Riken institute said this week it was weighing a retraction of breakthrough stem–cell research led by a Japanese scientist. The research, published in the journal Nature, purported to describe a safer and easier technique for creating stem cells. …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Japan lab weighing retraction of stem cell paperWashington PostTOKYO — A Japanese government-funded laboratory said Tuesday it is considering retracting a research paper describing a simple way of turning ordinary cells from mice into stem cells. The RIKEN Center for Development Biology in Kobe, Japan, has been … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
RTOne of the co-authors of a recent study promising to revolutionize the synthesis of stem cells has called for the entire research to be retracted after he reviewed the test data and reportedly found multiple problems, including “questionable images … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Los Angeles TimesThe studies, which were published in January by the journal Nature, described a surprisingly simple method of transforming mature cells into pluripotent stem cells capable of regenerating any type of tissue in the body. The key was to stress them out …Japanese scientist calls for stem cell studies to be withdrawnBoston.com (blog)One Author … Continue reading
HorsetalkKoenig is treating the horses using stem cells derived from the umbilical cord blood of foals obtained using a process developed by Dr Thomas Koch, a veterinarian and researcher in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Koch’s work is focused on … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Co-author of stem–cell study ‘loses faith’ in paperio9After claiming to have developed a novel technique for coaxing the growth of stem cells in an acid bath, Japanese researchers have come under scrutiny for apparent irregularities. In the latest twist, one of the paper’s coauthors has admitted that the … …read more &nbs… Continue reading
Regulating stem cell therapyThe HinduA revised set of guidelines on stem cell research was recently released by the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Department of Biotechnology, seven years after an earlier one was issued. Despite claiming that the revision was necessitated by a … and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading