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Japanese Institute Opens Investigation Into Its Stem-Cell Breakthrough

Questions Have Been Raised About Images in Study

Feb. 17, 2014 4:40 a.m. ET

A Japanese government-funded science institute said it has opened an investigation in response to questions raised about images in a groundbreaking study on stem cells.

The Riken research institute said Monday that it began the investigation Thursday, following allegations of irregularities in images used in two papers published last month in the British journal Nature.

The research, carried out by an international team led...

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