（下のノプラーブログ記事参照。） 7. RIKEN is having Obokata “help” with the STAP replication efforts so that if/when they fail that should be the final end OR, alternatively and pretty much the opposite, RIKEN/the government are hoping that Obokata can get some vaguely positive results leaving the STAP issue not entirely dead and that the vagueness will keep things uncertain for years.
>>509 バカンティの耳マウスはインチキであることが一般に知られている ＞The "ear" was actually an ear-shaped cartilage structure grown by ＞seeding cow cartilage cells into a biodegradable ear-shaped mold
Cao Yilin, a plastic surgeon ＞Cao produced a Vacanti mouse with an ear on its back at Harvard ＞University in 1997.
Generating pluripotent cells de novo WO 2013163296 A1
発明者 Charles A. Vacanti, Martin P. Vacanti, Koji Kojima, Haruko OBOKATA, Teruhiko Wakayama, Yoshiki Sasai, Masayuki Yamato 特許出願人 The Brigham And Women's Hospital, Inc., Riken, Tokyo Women's Medical University
＞In 2008, a Japanese graduate student, Haruko Obokata, took up the project, ＞and succeeded in much more rigorously replicating the 2001 work that had attracted so much criticism.
＞After stressing the cells almost to the point of death by exposing them ＞to various stressful environments including trauma, a low oxygen environments ＞and an acidic environment, researchers discovered that within a period of ＞only a few days, the cells survived and recovered from the stressful ＞stimulus by naturally reverting into a state that is equivalent to an ＞embryonic stem cell.
K. Ohashi, R. Utoh, T. Saito, H. Shimizu, K. Ise, M. Yamato, M. Gotoh, T. Okano: Functional neo Islets in vivo using cell sheet technology, Florida, 2010 Termis NA, 2010.12.05【国際会議】