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Top Japan Lab Dismisses Ground-breaking Stem Cell Study

Top Japan Lab Dismisses Ground-breaking Stem Cell Study
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Japan's top research institute on Friday hammered the final nail in the coffin of what was once billed as a ground-breaking stem cell study, dismissing it as flawed and saying the work could have been fabricated. The revelations come a week after a young researcher at the centre of the scandal, which has rocked the country's scientific establishment, said she would resign after failing to reproduce the successful conversion of an adult cell into a stem cell-like state, known as "STAP" cells. The failure marked a stunning fall from grace for 31-year-old Haruko Obokata, whose co-researcher committed suicide amid the embarrassing scandal that prompted respected science journal Nature to retract an article detailing the research. On Friday the government-backed Riken institute, which sponsored the study, said embryonic stem cells had been added in the process of the research, hammering Obokata's contention that she had found an easier way to generate new stem cells in the lab.

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Something like this breaks the credibility of scientists that claim they discovered something new. Now everyone will question how they reached their facts.