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Investigation finds misconduct in publications claiming to turn differentiated cells to pluripotent stem cells using only stress

The stem-cell scientist responsible for two recent Nature publications, claiming the ability to generate STAP cells from fully differentiated cells using only an acid bath or mechanical stress, has been found guilty of scientific misconduct.
Since publication, six specific data issues have been identified with these articles, which had seemed to fundamentally change the way researchers view the interplay between the environment and genome. A committee at the RIKEN center in Kobe investigating alleged data manipulation in these publications determined that two of six issues were scientific misconduct.


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