stem cell rejuvenation

too good to be true. and i was fooled alsojapanese stem cell breakthrough, a fraud reported by rob stein in shots, a prestigiousscientific journal took the unusual step of retracting some high-profile research thathad generated international excitement about stem cell research.the british scientific journal nature retracted two papers published in january by scientistsat the research institute in japan that claimed that they could create induced pluripotentialstem cells simply by dipping skin and blood cells into acid.the claim raised the possibility of being able to use the cells to easily make any kindof cell in the body to treat many diseases and generated international media coverage.but other scientists almost immediately raised

questions about the papers, and investigatorseventually found that the research papers contained many errors. in april, even rikenclaimed that haruko obokata, the main japanese scientist, was guilty of scientific misconduct.the scientists involved in the work, including at the harvard-affiliated brigham and women'shospital in boston, issued statements regretting the problems with the papers and agreeingthat they should be retracted. comment: in a previous blog video i said thiswas a major breakthrough. scientific misconduct is unfortunately all too common.