Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

Obokata's supervisor holds press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, drinks water during a press conference in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Sasai, a veteran scientist who supervised the writing by Haruko Obokata of two controversial papers on STAP cells, apologized for the confusion, concern and sense of mistrust caused by the papers but expressed confidence about the existence of the STAP phenomenon.

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