STAP Cell Protocol Page from Charles Vacanti lab. The Vacanti Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School has now posted online their own version of the STAP cell production protocol. The thing that first struck me most strongly about this published protocol is that it is not the same protocol reported in the Nature papers and it also is not the same as the recently posted RIKEN STA

Are the Nature STAP stem cell papers compromised? Could Nature‘s investigation conclude with something as serious as retraction or rather a mild slap on the wrist? Somewhere in between? (note you may find this update post from 2020 to be of interest: Whatever happened to the STAP cell scientists including Haruko Obokata?) Why is this question even being raised? A large number of potentially seriou

This is a crowdsource page for people who want to post their findings on their attempts to validate the STAP stem cell ( ＳＴＡＰ細胞) method.  I’m going to color successful or even moderately encouraging reports green and failures/discouraging results in red. *For those with longer attention spans, see some additional important considerations for this crowdsourcing effort at the bottom of this page. Pl

The only designation of Mr. Moriuchi’s educational background that I found was in a letter to the editor where he lists himself as M.P.H. Unless he has finished a medical degree or Ph.D. since 2004 (which is quite possible), he should be addressed as Mr. Moriuchi and not Dr. Moriuchi as the Harvard spokesperson addressed him. N Engl J Med 2004; 351:831-832August 19, 2004 To the Editor: A recent me

Back in late August, Liveyon leader John Kosolcharoen pleaded to federal charges on stem cells. What was Liveyon? Liveyon was a splashy umbilical cord stem cell supplier company. I don’t know if the company is still active now. One of its core products ended up sending dozens of people to…