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Does Europe Know Something About STAP Cells That We Don't? Latest Poll Results

Does Europe Know Something About STAP Cells That We Don’t? Latest Poll Results

For more than 3 months I’ve been doing a tracking poll on the sentiments of the readers of this blog about STAP stem cells. The question is “Do you believe in STAP Stem Cells?”

The result are summarized in the graph above.

The latest poll results from period #9 are somewhat of a surprise.

The overall trend for Poll #9 on STAP stem cells would seem to indicate a significant shift toward a more…

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Wild History of VSELs Predict Future of STAP Cells?

Wild History of VSELs Predict Future of STAP Cells?

Very small embryonic-like stem cells aka VSELs are reported to be tiny adult stem cells that are pluripotent…..or….. non-existent depending on whom you talk to most recently or which paper you just read.

These very controversial cells (which I once compared to the Sasquatch) have a wildly fluctuating history with their existence on multiple occasions apparently being proven and then later…

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Guest post: A seismologist from Japan looks at the STAP cells mess

Guest post: A seismologist from Japan looks at the STAP cells mess

By Robert J. Geller

I’m a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, where I’ve been since 1984. I was the first tenured foreign faculty member in the history of our university. If you look at my publication list on the Researcher IDsite you can see that my main research recent interests are modeling seismic wave propagation and analyzing observed seismic waveform data to determine the seismic…

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