RIKEN Teams Gives Up on STAP Cells

December 19, 2014

(Science) – A Japanese team announced Friday in Tokyo that it has been unable to reproduce a new, astoundingly simple way of generating pluripotent stem cells, despite working directly with the lead author on the Nature papers reporting the breakthrough method. That researcher, Haruko Obokata, also today resigned from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, home of most of the team conducting the research.