Japan lab weighing retraction of stem cell paper

[matsuki]

Ahhhhh that one....let the slutfest begin!

[legion]

There is some intent to deceive going on here. And what makes it really ugly is that the claims, if true, would have provided real hope for a wide range of currently difficult and untreatable medical conditions. That lie ... the false hope ... has hurt the research establishment as much as it has hurt the people, current and future, who might have benefited from such a breakthrough.

My buddy Hiro being one

http://blog.honeyee.com/hfujita/

[Takechanpoo]

kyoto univ developed a medicine to cure genetic disease
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/02/03/1415525112

[Coligny]

kyoto univ developed a medicine to cure genetic disease
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/02/03/1415525112

1 could you be even moar vague in your summary.

2 they found a compound that seem to work. They seem to be still away from having a sell ready drug... (With stuff like human trials, homologation and authorization of sale)

[Russell]

Explains it all...

Women scientists 'distract men, fall in love with them and cry when criticised,' says Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt

Women scientists should work in same-sex labs because they distract men from their work, fall in love with male colleagues and cry when they are criticised.

At least that is the view of British Nobel Prize winner, Tim Hunt, who admitted yesterday that he is a “chauvinistic pig” at a conference in South Korea which was hosted by female scientists.

Sir Tim – who won the 2001 Prize for discovering protein molecules that control the division of cells – was giving a toast at a lunch where he raised a glass to tell his stunned hosts: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and – when you criticise them – they cry.”

The 72-year-old laureate’s remarks were reported by Connie St Louis, a science journalism lecturer at London’s City University, who was at the conference. She said: “Suddenly, he jumped up and said he was a chauvinist pig.

“They were horrified, really horrified. Some people laughed nervously. Some just sat there and put their heads in their hands. It was so awful and worse – he was British.”

More

As one Nobel prize winner once said: "Winning a Nobel opens many doors. Especially to the bedrooms of young women..."

Probably, it became too much for this Brit.

[Mike Oxlong]

New Tokyo cafe for girls majoring in science

A cafe will open on June 20 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward for rikejo, or female college students majoring in science, to mingle with each other.

At the RKJcafe, female science students in white lab coats will serve customers with drinks in beakers and test tubes.

The cafe will operate exclusively on weekends. Not only female university students studying science but also middle and high school girls who wish to major in science at university can use the cafe free of charge.

RKJcafe was planned by Knowledge Hands, an employment support company in Minato Ward, Tokyo. According to the company, women account for only 10 per cent to 30 per cent of all the students at science and technology departments at universities. When they want to speak with students of the same gender, they can find only a few female students around them.

The company aims to make the cafe a place where female science majors get together and exchange information on their research projects and private lives, and on job hunting activities with an eye on marrying and having babies in the future...

http://news.asiaone.com/news/education/ ... ng-science

[yanpa]

The linked site is an Asian version of theonion.com, amirite?

[Coligny]

The linked site is an Asian version of theonion.com, amirite?

You are new to this country or the isolation coming from working at home made you forget ?

[yanpa]

The linked site is an Asian version of theonion.com, amirite?

You are new to this country or the isolation coming from working at home made you forget ?

I see myself as an oriental equivalent of Wonko the Sane.

[Coligny]

When I feel blue I pretend that I'm an SH3 Seaking and make the rotor noise by grinding my teeth.

Managed to get my mom piss herself laughing 20 years ago the day i started running after an overhead helo while shouting "daddy... Daddy..." Ok She was shitfaced drunk as usuual (well it was almost noon already) but still lucid enough to perfectly get that I was talking to the chopper and not its crew...

The wear pattern on my teeth has always been hard to explain to my dentists...

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Me in highschool.

[Coligny]

Explains it all...

Women scientists 'distract men, fall in love with them and cry when criticised,' says Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt

Women scientists should work in same-sex labs because they distract men from their work, fall in love with male colleagues and cry when they are criticised.

At least that is the view of British Nobel Prize winner, Tim Hunt, who admitted yesterday that he is a “chauvinistic pig” at a conference in South Korea which was hosted by female scientists.

Sir Tim – who won the 2001 Prize for discovering protein molecules that control the division of cells – was giving a toast at a lunch where he raised a glass to tell his stunned hosts: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and – when you criticise them – they cry.”

The 72-year-old laureate’s remarks were reported by Connie St Louis, a science journalism lecturer at London’s City University, who was at the conference. She said: “Suddenly, he jumped up and said he was a chauvinist pig.

“They were horrified, really horrified. Some people laughed nervously. Some just sat there and put their heads in their hands. It was so awful and worse – he was British.”

More

As one Nobel prize winner once said: "Winning a Nobel opens many doors. Especially to the bedrooms of young women..."

Probably, it became too much for this Brit.

Well... Seems someone tried to pull a quick one...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... imony.html

A very flawed accuser: Investigation into the academic who hounded a Nobel Prize winning scientist out of his job reveals troubling questions about her testimony

What was the saying already... "What do you do when you want to draw attention to your organisation? You find something to be offended by,"

[Russell]

Well... Seems someone tried to pull a quick one...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... imony.html

A very flawed accuser: Investigation into the academic who hounded a Nobel Prize winning scientist out of his job reveals troubling questions about her testimony

What was the saying already... "What do you do when you want to draw attention to your organisation? You find something to be offended by,"

What a cunt!

[kurogane]

Surely not even the Daily Mail could expect somebody that dresses like this to understand humorous irony!!????



Quite a little fandango, I must say. Even allowing how culpable and biased is the Daily Flail in all this, she deserves at least a full professional colonoscopy, and a humour implant.

[legion]

The fine art of the inflated CV.

As a lowly grunt I am amazed at the freeloading lifestyles of the politically correct.

[Takechanpoo]

its undoubtedly true that the more uncertain factors significantly increase the more women workers increase in your office.
maximum number of women is 3 or 4 a work place. otherwise it will get to be like a zoo.
its true, no matter what others growl.
the world is getting to be harder and harder to live
what is the antonym of civilization? yeah the answer is "woman".

[Wage Slave]

The average plodding and unsuccessful Japanese company dominated by the block headed salaryman mindset - Yes, quite possibly women find it difficult to fit in. A successful and slick company like DoCoMo on the other hand .....

[legion]

its undoubtedly true that the more uncertain factors significantly increase the more women workers increase in your office.
maximum number of women is 3 or 4 a work place. otherwise it will get to be like a zoo.
its true, no matter what others growl.
the world is getting to be harder and harder to live
what is the antonym of civilization? yeah the answer is "woman".

I guess you are gay

[kurogane]

The fine art of the inflated CV.

As a lowly grunt I am amazed at the freeloading lifestyles of the politically correct.

Dood, you toats need to go trans-ethnic. It's very liberating. Add in a trans-abled lesbian of colour and the sky is your limit.

[Coligny]

its undoubtedly true that the more uncertain factors significantly increase the more women workers increase in your office.
maximum number of women is 3 or 4 a work place. otherwise it will get to be like a zoo.
its true, no matter what others growl.
the world is getting to be harder and harder to live
what is the antonym of civilization? yeah the answer is "woman".

I guess you are gay

I guess he's breeding with a pillow...

[matsuki]

Surely not even the Daily Mail could expect somebody that dresses like this to understand humorous irony!!????



Quite a little fandango, I must say. Even allowing how culpable and biased is the Daily Flail in all this, she deserves at least a full professional colonoscopy, and a humour implant.

[Takechanpoo]

Muse cell of Mari Dezawa and Ominaga of Tohoku univ. succeeded in restoration of lost neurological function by stroke
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2015/1 ... 05-02.html
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/newimg ... _02web.pdf
(japanese version only)

[Mike Oxlong]

Embattled stem cell researcher Obokata stripped of doctorate

Waseda University said Monday it has revoked the doctoral degree given in 2011 to Haruko Obokata over the alleged falsification of papers on "STAP cell" research that was initially seen as a groundbreaking stem cell discovery.

The university's President Kaoru Kamata told a press conference in Tokyo that the 32-year-old former Riken institute researcher submitted her corrected thesis within the one-year deadline, but the content did not reach the level required for evaluation.

In a statement Obokata criticized the revocation procedure as being "unfair" because examiners were apparently seeking to reject her thesis anyway, according to a lawyer representing her.

Obokata's previous academic work came under scrutiny after allegations of data falsification and fabrication surfaced in papers she and fellow researchers published last year, in which they claimed to have succeeded in creating stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cells that they said can grow into any mouse body tissue.

The papers appeared in the British science journal Nature in January 2014, but were retracted in July the same year.

Also in July last year, Waseda University, which launched an investigative panel separately over her doctoral thesis, concluded that her work contained copyright infringements and other flaws.

The university, however, also acknowledged there had been serious flaws in the guidance and screening process, and said in October last year that it would give Obokata a one-year period to correct her dissertation before revoking the doctoral degree.

Obokata's lawyer Hideo Miki said Obotaka was upset about the outcome, saying Waseda University reached its conclusion by "placing emphasis on the social atmosphere" rather than for academic reasons.

She was told by an examiner of the thesis, "It is obvious that we cannot acknowledge you as a doctor when considering the reactions seen among (academic) circles," according to Miki...

[Russell]

I read in the comments section of this article that she now teaches at a Juku in Kobe.

[matsuki]

I read in the comments section of this article that she now teaches at a Juku in Kobe.

I'd cram her with some DNA...but I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it.

[Russell]

I read in the comments section of this article that she now teaches at a Juku in Kobe.

I'd cram her with some DNA...but I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it.

Well, if she gets knocked up, you can always claim that it's those STAP cells.

If she believes you, that's proof that her fraud was unintentional...

[matsuki]

If I knocked her up, I'm pretty sure I'd have to pay for it. Tearing away her credentials is pretty awesome though....but one hopes the rest of the enablers see similar fates.

[Salty]

If I knocked her up, I'm pretty sure I'd have to pay for it. Tearing away her credentials is pretty awesome though....but one hopes the rest of the enablers see similar fates.

Indeed - let the witch hunt begin. Fire the professor who mentored and then reviewed and approved her thesis. Then go after her undergrad professors - and even the librarians who lent her books. Strip her of her.. well, just strip her, OK?

[Isle of View]

If I knocked her up, I'm pretty sure I'd have to pay for it. Tearing away her credentials is pretty awesome though....but one hopes the rest of the enablers see similar fates.

Indeed - let the witch hunt begin. Fire the professor who mentored and then reviewed and approved her thesis. Then go after her undergrad professors - and even the librarians who lent her books. Strip her of her.. well, just strip her, OK?

Quite.

. . . Strip her of her citizenship, declare her persona non grata, and put her on a plane for Best Korea.

Stripping her of her Ph.D. would only make sense if the work in her dissertation was demonstrably and unambiguously bogus.

[matsuki]

Stripping her of her Ph.D. would only make sense if the work in her dissertation was demonstrably and unambiguously bogus.

It sounds like she went to the farm with copy/paste on others work. Related or not, she doesn't deserve something she didn't actually earn.

[Salty]

Stripping her of her Ph.D. would only make sense if the work in her dissertation was demonstrably and unambiguously bogus.

It sounds like she went to the farm with copy/paste on others work. Related or not, she doesn't deserve something she didn't actually earn.

That was my understanding too. It just came to light due to the greater controversy. (She should still be stripped. …. Waiting to see her in a porn film….)