Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Aizawa, head of Japan's Riken verification team on the STAP cell research, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014. The research institute announced that embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has failed in experiments to produce the cells that she previously claimed to have created.

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