Japanese Nobel Winner Latest to Apologize over Stem-Cell Research

April 29, 2014

(The Wall Street Journal) – A scandal involving Japanese stem-cell research took a surprising turn Monday when the nation’s most revered researcher in the field, Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka, apologized for what he described as poor record-keeping. The apology came after months of soul-searching in Japan over research ethics. A researcher at the prestigious Riken institute, Haruko Obokata, apologized earlier this month after admitting errors in a paper in the journal Nature that described a possible new method of creating stem cells.