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Do You Believe in STAP Stem Cells? One Final Poll in 2014
Do You Believe in STAP Stem Cells? One Final Poll in 2014
It’s been many months since I last asked, so for one last time in 2014, here’s a poll on your views of STAP stem cells.
What do you think? You can vote once per day. I am going to follow up with a couple different STAP-related polls this week, but this is the last one of 2014 on the actual STAP cells.
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Editorial: Past Time for Nature to Retract STAP Cell Papers & Open Up On Review Problems
Editorial: Past Time for Nature to Retract STAP Cell Papers & Open Up On Review Problems
Two stem cell papers riddled with errors, with figures that resulted from potential misconduct, with plagiarism, and with other serious problems remain uncorrected and unretracted in the prestigious journal Nature.
It is well past time for the journal to editorially retract them.
It was about four months ago that Nature published the two astonishing STAP papers reporting the supposed creation of…
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STAP Cell Poll #6 Results
STAP Cell Poll #6 Results
STAP poll #6 polling results on STAP are about the same as the last couple weeks with most folks still leaning negative, but not quite as negative as in week #4. The poll question is “Do you believe in STAP cells?” We had more than 600 respondents for #6.
Keep in mind this polling is not scientific. Also the originally intended timing of being “weekly” is a bit off now so I’m switching them to…
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Multiple sources say momentum for STAP paper retraction building in Japan & inside RIKEN
Multiple sources say momentum for STAP paper retraction building in Japan & inside RIKEN
I’m hearing from multiple sources that momentum is building in Japan and even inside RIKEN itself for retraction of the STAP cell papers.
This whole situation is a tragedy on so many levels and has become a no-win situation, but is it so bad that at this point that retraction could possibly be the least terrible of the entirely bad array of options?
Why would some folks in Japan and even inside…
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Week 4 poll: few hopeful about STAP stem cells anymore
Week 4 poll: few hopeful about STAP stem cells anymore
I’ve been doing a weekly-ish poll on people’s sentiments about STAP stem cells. It’s not scientific but many people have told me they find it interesting.
Week 4′s poll is done with more than 500 votes and it is even more discouraging than week 3. See the purple line in the graph as that is the latest polling.
The question is “Do you believe in STAP stem cells?” and the answers range from 100%…
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Latest STAP stem cell whispers: glimmers of hope or mirages?
Latest STAP stem cell whispers: glimmers of hope or mirages?
I’ve heard several reports now that labs can sometimes see some kind of either Oct4-GFP reporter activity or pluripotency gene expression in acid treated cells, but the scientists do not seem particularly encouraged.
One said that the cells gave a glimmer of interesting gene expression, but would not grow at all and s/he thought the gene expression and Oct4-GFP may have been manifestations of…
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Interview with Dr. Teru Wakayama on STAP stem cells
Interview with Dr. Teru Wakayama on STAP stem cells
I asked Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, who goes by Teru to those who know him, if he would be willing to do a Q&A on the STAP stem cell situation.
Teru was senior author on the STAP stem cell Nature letter on chimerism, but was not an author on the other STAP paper, the Nature article on the production of STAP stem cells.
Teru kindly agreed to my invitation. He responded straightforwardly to what I…
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Talking STAP stem cells & more on cool 'The Stem Cell Podcast'
Talking STAP stem cells & more on cool ‘The Stem Cell Podcast’
Want to hear the latest on stem cells?Check out this awesome stem cell podcast series by Drs. Christopher Fasano and Yosif Ganat. These guys deserve some kind of award for this effort.
You can listen to their interview with me posted yesterday where we dish on STAP stem cells, blogging, and more including two crazy stories I have to tell.
You can also listen to The Stem Cell Podcast on iTunes.
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