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A public relations official at CDB said Obokata and her colleagues were directing all queries to RIKEN headquarters.
Wakayama, who was previously at CDB and is a co-author of both papers and a corresponding author on one, had supplied the mice for the experiments.
Co-authors of the paper include researchers at CDB, at other institutions in Japan, and at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
RIKEN, which oversees a network of nationally funded research institutes from its headquarters in Wako near Tokyo, set up the reform committee in April after an investigative committee found that the two stem cell papers, from a team based primarily at CDB, were riddled with image and data manipulation and plagiarism.
Teruhiko Wakayama, a co-author formerly at CDB now at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, says that Obokata shared the reviewers' comments with him and he made suggestions for revisions pertaining only to the chimeric mice experiments, which were his responsibility.
S. Kuraku is the leader of the Genome Resource and Analysis Unit at CDB. S. Kuratani is the director of the Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology at CDB.
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