Sentences with phrase «stap stem»

The top administrators of RIKEN, Japan's national network of research laboratories, will voluntarily return 1 to 3 months of their salaries to atone for their responsibility for the STAP stem cell fiasco.

► This afternoon, Normile reported at ScienceInsider that top administrator's at RIKEN, Japan's network of laboratories, «will voluntarily return 1 to 3 months of their salaries to atone for their responsibility for the STAP stem cell fiasco.»

She «is willing to retract a paper concluding that so - called STAP stem cells can form a wide variety of tissues, but does not intend to retract the paper describing how to make those stem cells.»

Not exact matches

«It would be naive to think that only the letter [the second paper] can be retracted and that the [methods] article will remain with the STAP cell narrative overall having any legitimacy,» stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler of the University of California, Davis told ScienceInsider in an e-mail.

► In April, we reported that stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata (the lead author of the two STAP — stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency — papers in Nature) was found guilty of research misconduct by a RIKEN investigating committee.

► On Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Dennis Normile reported that stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata (lead author of the two STAP — stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency — papers in Nature) «has agreed to retract the two Nature papers that reported her work.»

Controversy continues to swirl around two recent papers reporting that simply stressing adult cells could turn them into powerful stem cells called STAP cells.

► You may remember «last year's sensational claims surrounding stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells, the supposedly powerful stem cells derived using a remarkably simple recipe,» as Gretchen Vogel described it in a piece published Wednesday.

More cautious researchers would have realized they were on the wrong track, says Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem cell researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge whose lab spent 2 months trying to make STAP cells and contributed data to the new paper.

Sasai was a co-author on two research papers that claimed to produce embryonic stem cells called STAP from adult cells using acid.

The 30 - year - old was widely celebrated when she and colleagues published two papers in Nature describing a new and surprisingly simple way of creating stem cells, which the researchers dubbed stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells.

RIKEN launched an investigation after claims of image manipulation and plagiarism surfaced regarding a research article and a letter published online in Nature on 29 January that described a new, simple way of creating stem cells called STAP, for stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency.

Separately, Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee, an embryologist and stem cell researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who live - blogged about his futile attempts to reproduce STAP cells, today published all the details of his efforts online at F1000Research.

► Last Friday, Dennis Normile reported on a bizarre turn in the STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency) stem cell affair.

Shunsuke Ishii, the chair of the RIKEN investigating committee that recently found stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata (first author on the Nature papers reporting the STAP results) guilty of research misconduct, is himself under investigation for research misconduct.

Sasai was co-author on two papers that claimed to produce embryonic stem cells called STAP from adult cells using acid.

The committee's final report (in Japanese), released today, is the latest blow against a surprisingly simple method for creating stem cells, known as STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency), published in a Nature article and an accompanying letter online on 29 January by Obokata and colleagues at RIKEN CDB, along with other institutions in Japan and at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Yamanaka was referring to a recent string of public apologies by stem cell scientists in Japan, triggered by two high - profile papers published earlier this year that claim to have found an alternate way to reprogram adult cells into embryolike ones — called STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency) cells.

STAP, or stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency, is the name given to an extremely easy way of deriving stem cells, which can theoretically develop into any of a body's tissues.

In the latest twist in the story of STAP cells, a new kind of stem cell described in two Nature papers in January, a scientist is live - blogging his latest attempt to generate the cells.

«I don't really hear from almost anyone who fully believes in STAP cells anymore,» wrote stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine wrote in a 25 March blog post.

Two papers claiming that stressing the body's cell could produce embryonic - like stem cells, a process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), were heralded when published in Nature in January but thrashed soon after when problematic images and figures were soon found.

Called STAP cells, the new stem cells can change into more types of cells than other lab - made stem cells.

The stem cell research community hopes that as more is understood about STAP cells, they will join embryonic stem and iPS cells as another reprogramming tool for use in their collective quest to understand and treat human disease.

STAP (stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency) cells were thought to be engineered stem cells created when hematopoietic stem cells from the spleens of newborn mice were exposed to an acid environment, triggering their conversion from multipotent somatic cells to pluripotent - like stem cells.

Another Nature stem cell article has been retracted, indicating the STAP retraction legacy is not yet over.