Haruko Obokata, shown January 28, 2014, has submitted her resignation as a researcher at Riken, after the scientific establishment announced her study on re-programme adult cells cannot be reproduced A researcher embroiled in a fabrication scandal that has rocked Japan's scientific establishment said Friday she would resign after failing to reproduce results of what was once billed as a ground-breaking study on stem cells. Haruko Obokata said she was dismayed that new laboratory tests have not been able to repeat her experiments, which she had claimed showed the successful conversion of an adult cell into a stem cell-like state.
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