Embattled STAP Cell Scientist Obokata to Retract Research Paper
        
            By Japan Times, 
                The Japan Times
             | 05. 28. 2014
        
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            OSAKA – Embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has agreed to retract one of two STAP cell research papers from the journal Nature, but maintains she will not retract the other one, her lawyer said Wednesday.
It is the first time that the 30-year-old researcher from the state-backed Riken Institute has agreed to have a paper retracted in connection with the high-profile study that quickly drew questions and allegations of misconduct.
Obokata, who led the study into the stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cells, and two other co-authors have given their consent to retract the paper, sources close to the matter said.
Of the three researchers, her lawyer said University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama is responsible for the paper Obokata has agreed to retract. He was engaged in all experiments, and Obokata wrote the paper under his guidance, lawyer Hideo Miki said.
She e-mailed the other main co-author, Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, that she would have no problem if Wakayama wants to retract it, Miki said.
Both papers were published in the Jan...
 
       
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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