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Perspectives 10 years after STAP cells: the culture of science, misconduct, & hopes for progress

Exactly ten years ago today, on January 29, 2014, I wrote about two new Nature papers on so-called STAP cells. The papers claimed that stress alone could convert regular non-stem cells into some of the most powerful stem cells. More specifically, the authors claimed to make pluripotent stem cells similar to iPS cells this way. Maybe even totipotent cells. They …
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