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                Japanese Scientist Resigns in Stem Cell Scandal

   by VOA News

   A Japanese scientist who claimed a major breakthrough in stem cell
   research has resigned after the government lab where she worked could
   not replicate her results.

   Haruko Obokata said in a statement Friday that she was leaving the
   Riken Center for Developmental Biology after the lab concluded the stem
   cells she said she had created probably never existed.

   Rather than admit to fraud, Obokata said she was exhausted and
   "extremely perplexed" that her research could not be duplicated.

   She had initially been praised for leading the research that raised
   hopes for discovery of a simple way to grow replacement tissue.
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