See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles KYOTO–A new venture capital company spun off from Kyoto University is attempting to develop a cancer therapy that uses induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to rejuvenate debilitated immune...
See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles National The finding that a lead researcher falsified data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper is a setback for Japan’s efforts to promote its advanced research, but...
See on Scoop.it – Dernières nouvelles Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka called for academia to better educate young researchers in their 30s about ethics as they are often “immature in many ways.” See on...
Dennis Normile* A Japanese investigating committee concluded that image manipulation and the use of pictures from an old experiment constitute research misconduct in one of two papers reporting a new method of deriving stem...
Virginia Morell A 31 March ruling from the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, found that Japan’s justification for killing thousands of minke whales in the Southern Ocean since the mid-1990s...