It is possible that the stem cells claimed to be in menstrual fluid are endometrial stem cells that slough off each month during menstruation.
California-based PolyFuel, a developer of engineered membranes for fuel cells, claims that it has made a major advance in technology that could ultimately make cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells a commercial reality.
A mistake in handling manuscripts--not deliberate copying--led to an embarrassing use of borrowed text in a recent paper on the use of human embryonic stem cells, claims one of the authors, Karim Nayernia of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.
A new paper in the journal Cell claiming to have achieved breakthrough stem cell work using cloning to create personalized human embryonic stem cells is coming under serious scrutiny.
However, there was a high profile paper from the McMahon lab, published two years ago in Cell, claiming that if all three epsin genes were knocked down by siRNA in HeLa, BSC1, or RPE1 cells, clathrin-mediated endocytosis was effectively abolished: the phenotype was as severe as when clathrin or AP-2 were knocked down.
(Though Fatah condemned the atrocity, an al-Aqsa cell claimed joint responsibility for this week's killing of three Israelis in a bakery in Eilat, the first suicide-bombing inside Israel for nine months).
A prisoner caught with a needle in his cell claimed he was using it to run an illicit personalised greeting cards business.
An al-Qaeda terror cell claimed credit for the coordinated attack against Spain, an American ally in the Iraq War.
Any disturbance of autophagy accelerates cell death claiming that autophagy plays important roles in cell survival during ER stress [ 12, 13].
But she also firmly maintained that STAP cells, the new type of stem cells she claims to have developed, exist, and said she will not retract the two Nature papers reporting her finding.
