Stem cell researcher to speak to OSU graduatesThe Register-GuardCORVALLIS — Noted stem cell researcher Ann Kiessling will give the commencement address at Oregon State University’s graduation ceremony in June. The Baker City native earned a doctorate in biochemistry and biophysics from Oregon State in 1971. and more …read more &nbs… Continue reading
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