Catherine Verfaillie

Catherine Verfaillie: Another stem cell fraudster

/ Prasad Ravindranath

Published in The Hindu on October 30, 2008 Catherine Verfaillie, a University of Minnesota stem cell researcher, has followed in the foot steps of Hwang Woo Suk, the disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher who was charged with committing a fraud. Her 2002 paper in Nature took the world by storm — she had created … Continue reading Catherine Verfaillie: Another stem cell fraudster

Catherine Verfaillie: Another stem cell fraud surfaces

/ Prasad Ravindranath

Published in The Hindu on April 12, 2007 Even as the U.S. senate debates on expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, it may be remembered that the claims professed in many papers of adult stem cells becoming any specialised cells should be taken with a pinch of salt. That is even when the … Continue reading Catherine Verfaillie: Another stem cell fraud surfaces