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Published online 27 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060123-14
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Scientist faces irreproducible results
RNA researcher defends experiments others have found impossible to repeat.
After the spectacular case of fraud involving stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang, Asia has been hit by another, more low-key scandal.
The head of an investigating committee at the University of Tokyo announced on 27 January that at least one of the experiments performed by a Japanese RNA researcher, whose credibility stands in doubt, has failed a first test to reproduce the results.
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