Yoshiki Sasai
hung on a cord tied to the railing of the stairs in the building of the Institute. Scientist left a suicide note in which he said that he went to commit suicide because of shame. Arrived at the doctors tried to resuscitate a biologist, but their attempts were unsuccessful.
MD Yoshiki Sasai worked as deputy head of the Center for Biological Development Institute RIKEN in Kobe. Lately, his colleagues said, the scientist was in a depression, which arose after the scandalous stories with articles about the revolutionary method of growing stem cells.
in the British scientific journal Nature in 2014 came the publication of a relatively simple method of growing tissues of living cells of a new type. The author of the article was 30-year-old Haruko Obokata, and her co-author – Yoshiki Sasai, who supervised the work of a young colleague. In their study materials claimed that a group of scientists from the RIKEN allegedly managed to grow from stem cells in the mouse retina.
After publication, scientists have been criticized, and RIKEN Institute began an internal investigation, which drew independent experts. During inspection found that Obokata used in articles one and the same picture, as well as drawings rigged.
Haruko Obokata stated that described in the work cells do exist, and drawings tampered unintentionally. At the same time, Yoshiki Sasai said that the articles described a hypothesis.
In June commission investigating the incident, proposed to disband the biological development center, where he worked Sasai, and all authors seriously punished. In July, Nature withdrew articles by Japanese scientists, saying that they contain inaccuracies.
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