STAP cell article appeared in the case of a new system "Open Review" replacing review of a paper

ByFlood G.

SNS where as many as 4 million researchers are participatingResearchGate"We launched" Open Review ", a service that allows review of papers, publications and publications in open places. Immediately after being posted in Nature many questions are spewing outA paper of "STAP cell"Was picked up, and Hong Kong Chinese literature university conducting stem cell researchProfessor Kenneth Lee"I can not talk too much and it is impossible to reproduce."

Peer review is not working? Introducing Open Review - ResearchGate News
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When the content of the paper is published in academic journals, "peer review" goes on, but since the number of papers to be reviewed is quite large, there are only a few such papers that can be called "new discoveries"Papers Reviewer missed. It is also happening that errors are found after publication of a paper in a magazine or indeed it is valuable research but I do not see the eyes of the day. Therefore, ResearchGate that thought that a new system next to peer review is necessary is "Open Review".

In the Open Review, you can give feedback on reproducibility to the paper, ask for peer review of other experts on interesting research, and discuss publications with authors and experts.

Even though RIKEN announced that it is "a big discovery to overturn common sense", many papers have come up in the "STAP cell" paper, research on stem cells and the like in Hong Kong Chinese University University Professor Kenneth Lee is reviewing it.

Review of Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency. - ResearchGate
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259984904_Stimulus-triggered_fate_conversion_of_somatic_cells_into_pluripotency/reviews/103


Professor Lee's team also performed the reproduction experiment twice in the laboratory using the fabrication procedure indicated from RIKEN, but could not produce STAP cells.

About the article Professor Lee acknowledged that the reference is appropriate and meaningful and gives a stimulus that there are other simple and wonderful ways of reprogramming the cell, He said that there was a doubt that the experiment was appropriate and the data is accurate "and concluded that" There is no reproducibility. "

For STAP cell thesis, three of the four major authors agreed to withdraw, including Riken's Haruko Komori, three, and Mr. Kokoo was a student at the time he was studying abroad, and Professor Charles Bakanti from Harvard University opposed There is a situation that there is.

Mr. Kokoo agree to withdraw STAP paper, co-authors opposed: Asahi Shimbun Digital
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG3F66TRG3FULBJ00V.html