Sentences with phrase «of stap»
«We found that while pH alone resulted in the generation of STAP cells, the use of a low pH solution containing ATP, dramatically increased the efficacy of this conversion.
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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.
On 5 March, RIKEN released more detailed procedures for the creation of the STAP cells.
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It's your comment on the noise of the velcro that will help us... because so many time my children fell asleep in the ergo and I discreetly unlocked the staps to let them sleep on...
«And as the scrutiny has grown, several of the collaborating researchers have confirmed that they have not yet produced STAP [stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency] cells either.»
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.»
«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.
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► 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.»
Scientist Kenneth Ka - Ho Lee, who has been trying to reproduce STAP cells and has been regularly blogging about his progress, has given up, writing «I don't think STAP cells exist and it will be a waste of manpower and research funding to carry on with this experiment any further.»
► 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.»
► 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.
Makoto Asashima, executive director of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, told ScienceInsider that the manual «is not a response to the STAP problem.»
Now, as the 21st century gains ground in an ancient industry, Stap and his family have installed a robotic milking system that allows each of Twin Brook Creamery's 200 cows to choose when and how often she wants to saunter into the milking parlor, where she enjoys a meal and gets milked — all without the need for human supervision.
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.
He added that to the best of their knowledge, no outside group has reported success in generating STAP cells.
Obokata worked under Vacanti for several years, starting in 2008, and developed the STAP technique based on some of his earlier work.
«The mission of the investigating committee is to determine whether or not there has been misconduct; whether STAP cells exist is something for the scientific community to determine,» said committee chair Shunsuke Ishii, a RIKEN molecular geneticist, at the press conference, which lasted a marathon 4 hours.
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.
And as the scrutiny has grown, several of the collaborating researchers have confirmed that they have not yet produced STAP cells either.
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.
Further studies on STAP - 2 will provide new insights into cancer physiology and support the development of anticancer therapies,» says Tadashi Matsuda.
The research coming under fire reported the discovery of a potentially revolutionary process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), in which exposing adult cells to a stress such as acid or pressure prompts them to behave like cells in early embryos, which can become any cell type in the body.
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.
In his most recent online poll, 53 % of respondents indicated that they were «convinced» or «close to convinced that [STAP cells] are not real.»
The researchers called the process «stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency,» or STAP.
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.
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.
They described what they dubbed stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells in a research article and a research letter published online in Nature on 29 January.
To take responsibility for the STAP problem, RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori will return 3 months» worth of his salary to the institute.
«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.
But lately he had been immersed in controversy over two papers, published in Nature in January, that claimed a simple method of creating embryonic - like cells, called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP).
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.
«In recent months, our lab decided to re-explore the utility of a low pH solution containing ATP in generating STAP cells,» Vacanti writes in the revised protocol.
Soon after that, the lead author on the paper laying out the fundamental STAP technology, Charles Vacanti of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, released his own, quite different, list of tips for reproducing STAP.
Called STAP cells, the new stem cells can change into more types of cells than other lab - made stem cells.
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.
What makes Dr. Obokata's newly discovered cells, called «Stimulus - Triggered Acquisition of Pluripotency,» or STAP cells, so remarkable is that they are created, not by genetic manipulation, but through exposure to a more acidic environment.
I just used the new one today, the stap holder on side broke while at the airport, one of the tassels to zip with apparently fell off.
in an olive, navy and purple colorblock dress, with T - stap sandals and a glittery clutch at the premiere of Before We Go in L.A.
do you attach a stud to each of the horizontal staps??
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