Friday, July 3, 2015

Scientific misconduct and recent cases

I followed the first one about a Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata who was suspected of spiking her work with stem cells from other sources to suggest that she could induce inducible pluripotent stem cells iPSCs by stressing normal cells (or somatic cells).

Recently, another case in the US about a researcher Dong Pyou Han who spiked his rabbit blood samples with human antibodies to suggest that vaccine injected to the rabbits was able to induce immune response against the vaccine against HIV.

For the latest case, the perpetrator got a prison sentence.

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