Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, listens to a reporter's question at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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