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Stem cell tragedy: Yoshiki Sasai (笹井芳樹) commits suicide

August 4, 2014 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 23 Comments

Dr. Yoshiki Sasai (笹井芳樹) former Deputy Director of the RIKEN CDB and a senior author on the STAP papers, has reportedly died from suicide. Update: The Japan Times writes on this situation that Sasai was found hanging at RIKEN and there may have been a suicide note. Dr. Sasai was a top scholar in the stem […]

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What would you do with an extra brain?

September 1, 2013 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Let’s putting on our “thinking caps”….er, extra brains, get our geek on, and have some fun imagining where stem cell technology may lead us in the coming century. Unhappy with the one brain you have? Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a 2nd one too? A new one? Researchers have grown mini brain-like structures from

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