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Originally Posted by aturnis
I thought they could currently give donor organs a bath in a "stem cell slurry" of sorts to aid in the process? Our wash it first then bathe it. Whatever.
Maybe that doesn't work with a heart, I assume the allotted time for the exchange is pretty tight.
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Turns out that didn't hold up to scrutiny...
Call for acid-bath stem-cell paper to be retracted
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Less than 40 days after a team led by Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, presented two stunning papers claiming a method of using a simple acid-bath method to reprogramme mature mammalian cells back to an embryonic state — so called STAP cells — researchers in Japan, including one of the papers’ co-authors, are calling for them to be retracted.
Within weeks of their 30 January publication, the paper was criticized for irregularities and apparent duplicated images. Numerous scientists also had difficulty reproducing the supposedly simple method. The team responded with the promise of corrections and a list of tips to help other scientists to reproduce the results.
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