University of Tokoyo fires researcher over stem cell surgery claims

October 22, 2012

The University of Tokyo today dismissed the researcher who claimed to have carried out what would have been the world’s first trial of treating human patients with cells created from their own induced pluripotent stem (iPS). The researcher, Hisashi Moriguchi, later admitted at a press conference that the original claim of injecting cardiac muscle cells derived from iPS cells into the hearts of five patients was false, although he maintained the procedure was carried out on a single patient at a Boston hospital in mid-2011. (Science)