doctor #3
昨日の京都大学ｉＰＳ細胞研究所 所長の山中伸弥教授の記者会見には驚かされました。
Japanese Nobel Winner Latest to Apologize Over Stem-Cell Research
A scandal involving Japanese stem-cell research took a surprising turn Monday when the nation’s most revered researcher in the field, Nobel Prize laureate Shinya Yamanaka, apologized for what he described as poor record-keeping.
The apology came after months of soul-searching in Japan over research ethics. A researcher at the prestigious Riken institute, Haruko Obokata, apologized earlier this month after admitting errors in a paper in the journal Nature that described a possible new method of creating stem cells.
Last week, the head of the Riken panel investigating Dr. Obokata had to resign from the panel after admitting that a paper he co-authored used some of the same improper methods of cutting and pasting images that he had criticized in Dr. Obokata’s work.
On Monday evening, Dr. Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University, spoke at a news conference after questions arose about an image in a 2000 paper on which he was the lead author. In the paper, Dr. Yamanaka, then at Nara University, described a protein that played a role in turning embryo cells into cells specific to a part of the body.
The university said it conducted an investigation after Dr. Yamanaka informed administrators about allegations he discovered online that an image in the paper was doctored. It didn’t identify the party raising the allegations.
Kyoto University said it found no problem with the paper’s conclusions, but Dr. Yamanaka acknowledged that he no longer had the lab records that would support the validity of the images.
“I would like to express remorse from my heart and apologize,” he said.
すでに取り上げられていますが、doctorには「改ざんする」という意味があります。ここは「画像の加工」でしょうね。（Yokosay）
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20101105/1288955181
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20120909/1347159987
