Institute concludes Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Jan. 28, 2014, shows Haruko Obokata, a researcher with the Riken institute, at her laboratory in the institute in Kobe, western Japan. On Dec. 19, 2014, Riken concluded that Obokata failed in experiments to produce stem cells that she previously claimed to have created.

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