WASHINGTON – A U.S. scientist who assisted Haruko Obokata with what appeared to be groundbreaking stem cell research has corrected a paper she published in a U.S. magazine in 2011, citing an erroneous figure.
Charles Vacanti, a professor at Harvard Medical School and former adviser to Obokata during her research at the Riken Brain Science Institute, posted the error in the Tissue Engineering Part A magazine last Thursday.
The 2011 paper is one of several published works by Obokata that have come into question since allegations emerged that new stem cell research papers released by Riken in January — in which Obokata was lead author — contain serious errors.
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