Updated: July 8, 2014
| Jan 29 | Nature publishes STAP papers online |
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| Jan 29 | Postpub review of papers on ipscell.com |
| Jan 30 | First STAP polling starts: respondents mostly positive |
| Feb 2 | Surprising interview w/Vacanti: STAP easy to make, same as spore cells |
| Feb 4 | First key Pubpeer comment on splicing in Figure 1i |
| Feb 6 | Top 5 reasons for doubts on STAP |
| Feb 7 | STAP crowdsourcing experiment starts |
| Feb 13 | First Pubpeer comment on STAP placenta issue |
| Feb 13 | JuuichiJigen first post on STAP problems |
| Feb 14 | RIKEN & Nature begin STAP investigations |
| Feb 27 | Wakayama interview |
| Mar 10 | Wakayama calls for STAP paper retraction |
| March 13 | JuuichiJigen post on Obokata Ph.D. thesis problems |
| March 14 | RIKEN alleges that Obokata committed misconduct |
| Mar 24 | Nature rejects Ken Lee’s STAP paper showing that STAP doesn’t work |
| Apr 1 | Vacanti Harvard STAP talk for this fateful day was cancelled |
| Apr 1 | RIKEN announces Obokata guilty of misconduct |
| Apr 9 | Obokata admits mistakes, but not misconduct |
| April 25 | Head of RIKEN STAP investigation committee, Shunsuke Ishi, resigns amid allegations of his own paper problems |
| May 8 | F1000 Publishes Lee Lab Paper showing STAP fails |
| May 27 | Call for Nature retraction of STAP papers |
| May 28 | Obokata OKs letter, but not article retraction |
| Jun 3 | Obokata agrees to retract STAP article too |
| June 12 | Committee calls for restructuring of Riken CDB |
| Jun 16 | Genetics data suggest STAP cells involved mix or switch |
| July 2 | STAP Nature papers retracted |
| Aug 5 | Yoshiki Sasai, commits suicide |
| Sept 3 | Vacanti & Kojima reaffirm absolute confidence in STAP but issue new STAP protocol |
| Dec 19 | Obokata and Niwa fail in STAP final replication effort |
| Dec 20 | Obokata resigns from RIKEN |
| Sept 23, 2015 | Nature publishes refutations of STAP |
| Jan 28, 2016 | Obokata book claims she was framed for STAP |
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