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TOKYO In her first appearance before the press since her claims of an astounding breakthrough in stem cell research started unraveling, Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, apologized for the trouble she has caused her employer, her colleagues, and the scientific community.

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► At ScienceInsider on Wednesday, Dennis Normile reported that Haruko Obokata, the RIKEN stem-cell scientist who claimed what Normile called an "astounding breakthrough" in stem-cell science, appeared at a press conference at which she apologized but insisted on the legitimacy of her work.

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