Hello Lui (and everyone else), Recently, there have also been the following pubs that made it through review to publication but were later retracted or highly criticized/found to be fraudulent. The Obokata, Hwang and Chapela papers have received a lot of review/conversation on-line and elsewhere: Stem Cell Research Haruko Obokata, Teruhiko Wakayama, Yoshiki Sasai, Koji Kojima, Martin P. Vacanti, Hitoshi Niwa, Masayuki Yamato & Charles A. Vacanti. 2014. Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency. Nature 505, 641–647 (30 January 2014) doi:10.1038/nature12968 Received 10 March 2013 Accepted 20 December 2013 Published online 29 January 2014.
[see write-up HERE] Hwang WS1, Roh SI, Lee BC, Kang SK, Kwon DK, Kim S, Kim SJ, Park SW, Kwon HS, Lee CK, Lee JB, Kim JM, Ahn C, Paek SH, Chang SS, Koo JJ, Yoon HS, Hwang JH, Hwang YY, Park YS, Oh SK, Kim HS, Park JH, Moon SY, Schatten G. 2005. Patient-specific embryonic stem cells derived from human SCNT blastocysts. Science. 2005 Jun 17; 308(5729): 1777-83. Epub 2005 May 19. [see write-up on gross misconduct, etc HERE] Tachibana M, Amato P, Sparman M, Gutierrez NM, Tippner-Hedges R, Ma H, Kang E, Fulati A, Lee HS, Sritanaudomchai H, Masterson K, Larson J, Eaton D, Sadler-Fredd K, Battaglia D, Lee D, Wu D, Jensen J, Patton P, Gokhale S, Stouffer RL, Wolf D, Mitalipov S. Human embryonic stem cells derived by somatic cell nuclear transfer. Cell. 2013 Jun 6;153(6):1228-38. PMID: 23683578 [see editorial in nature HERE] Transgenic Corn Judy A. Carman, Howard R. Vlieger, Larry J. Ver Steeg, Verlyn E. Sneller, Garth W. Robinson, Catherine A. Clinch-Jones, Julie I. Haynes, John W. Edwards. 2013. A long-term toxicology study on pigs fed a combined genetically modified (GM) soy and GM maize diet. Journal of Organic Systems vol. 8. No. 1. [see editorial on this and other bad GMO science HERE] Quist D, Chapela I. 2001. Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nature 414 (6863): 541–3. doi:10.1038/35107068. PMID 11734853. see rebuttals in: Kaplinsky N, Braun D, Lisch D, Hay A, Hake S, Freeling M (April 2002). "Biodiversity (Communications Arising): maize transgene results in Mexico are artefacts". Nature 416 (6881): 601–2; discussion 600, 602. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..601K. doi:10.1038/nature739. PMID 11935145 Ortiz-Garcia, S. 2005. "Absence of detectable transgenes in local landraces of maize in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003-2004). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (35): 12338-12343. Bibcode: 2005PNAS. 10212338O. doi:10.1073/pnas.0503356102. PMC 1184035. PMID 16093316. Best of luck with your class! Jim
