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Journal retracts claim of sperm made of stem cells due to plagia...

Office of Research Integrity  Fri, 07/31/2009 - 15:15

A scientific journal has retracted a controversial paper claiming to have created the first human sperm from embryonic stem cells.

The journal's editor told the science publication Nature that the study by scientists at Britain's Newcastle University was retracted because two paragraphs in its introduction had been plagiarized.


 

Scientists Create Human Sperm from Stem Cells

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 07/07/2009 - 13:35

For the first time, researchers have generated germ cells from embryonic stem cells