Institute concludes Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

Institute concludes Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

OSAKA, Japan - Hideo Miki, lawyer for Haruko Obokata, a researcher with the Riken institute, meets the press in Osaka on Dec. 19, 2014, after the institute concluded that Obokata failed in experiments to produce stem cells that she previously claimed to have created.

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