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Category: Japan

Posted on January 23, 2020

Coronavirus: What explains WHO’s hesitancy to regularly update its website?

It is surprising that the WHO does not considering sharing on its website, which was finally updated on January 21 after four days, the information it tweets considering that the…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: The wages of scientific fraud

With the Supreme Court of South Korea upholding its 2010 ruling, Hwang Woo Suk, the notorious stem cell researcher from the Seoul National University in South Korea, will serve a…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

The “landmark” stem cell paper may be retracted

  The landmark studies on “stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency” (STAP) published in Nature on January 30 this year, which first came under intense scrutiny and severe criticism very soon after…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Duplication of images in stem cell papers spotted

After Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University plunged into ignominy for duplicating images and for other unethical practices in the June 2005 paper on stem cell study in the…

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Posted on January 16, 2016April 27, 2016

Now, reversing adult cells to stem cells becomes easy

If in 2006 Shinya Yamanaka showed to the world that reversing adult cells (differentiated cells) to behave like stem cells — induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) — is indeed…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Editorial: After sayonara, second thoughts

Published in The Hindu on September 25, 2012 Now that the dust has settled, the Japanese government’s failure formally to approve a cabinet panel proposal to phase out nuclear energy…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Editorial: Sayonara nuclear power

Published in The Hindu on September 22, 2012 The much needed big push towards low-cost, highly-efficient, cutting-edge renewable energy technologies was lacking till recently. Even the compulsion to cut down…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Editorial: Price of collusion

Published in The Hindu on July 19, 2012 The recently released report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission provides official confirmation of what has been common knowledge since…

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