Hisashi Moriguchi, the fellow who made up the story of having transplanted iPS cells into human patients and then later admitted that he had lied, has been fired by the University of Tokyo according to a statement (here in Japanese) from the university. An admittedly fairly weak translation to English by Google is the following: …
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A team from the Salk Institute in La Jolla led by Inder Verma has reported dedifferentiation in a paper in Science some important findings that I believe make their paper in the top 10 as a candidate for paper of the year. The paper, entitled “Dedifferentiation of Neurons and Astrocytes by Oncogenes Can Induce Gliomas …
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The FDA warning letter that Celltex received in late September (but that just went public yesterday–see my initial reaction here) is a possible game-changer for that company in my opinion. Why? The letter outlined in great detail the FDA’s concerns with how Celltex manufactures its stem cell product ranging from lack of documentation to concerns about aseptic/sterile …
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Sugarland, Texas stem cell clinic, Celltex, is most well known for having done the stem cell treatment on Texas Governor Rick Perry. What’s up with Celltex this week? There has a lot of talk behind the scenes that something big has happened. Very recently Celltex put out a PR recently saying it had received a …
I’ve been working with volunteer translators to make available a white paper on stem cells to as many people across the globe as possible. I call the project, Stem Cell Outreach Program for Education (SCOPE). SCOPE has been a big success and we are now at 21 languages! I want to again say my thanks …
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The Japanese government reportedly (also here) is now investigating Moriguchi and also government funded research projects linked to him. These projects were funded in the millions of U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, the major Japanese newspapers are pointing out how the others (and to be fair, sometimes how they themselves) ran articles on Moriguchi over the years sometimes describing …
I’m getting some heat from some stem cell folks who think I should not have blogged about the Moriguchi iPS cell transplant case. Their argument seems to be it would have been preferable to either (A) not blog about the story at all or only minimally so fewer people would know about it or (B) …
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How could the biggest newspaper in Japan, Yomiuri, get so badly tricked without even trying to verify facts prior to splashing it across their front page? A commenter on this blog named Mulboyne says that competing newspaper Mainichi was offered the Moriguchi story but solid investigative reporting made them decline it. Here’s the quote: “The …
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Hisashi Moriguchi, who claimed to have transplanted iPS cells into six human patients has now admitted that he lied about five of them according to a new Nature piece by excellent science writer David Cyranoski, on the strange case citing several Japanese newspaper articles as sources. Quoted from a press conference yesterday in the Nature …
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The fellow at the center of what appears to be a made up story about iPS cell transplantation into humans is named Hisashi Moriguchi. Two new articles in the Japanese media support the notion that he has made the whole iPS cell transplant story up: here and here. Most people I’ve talked to in the …
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