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Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Japan, attends a news conference in Tokyo April 16, 2014. Sasai, a Japanese researcher at the center of discredited research that was initially hailed as a potential breakthrough for stem cell treatment, killed himself after months of stress and exhaustion, officials said on Tuesday.
Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken's Center for Developmental Biology in Japan, attends a news conference in Tokyo April 16, 2014. Sasai, a Japanese researcher at the center of discredited research that was initially hailed as a potential breakthrough for stem cell treatment, killed himself after months of stress and exhaustion, officials said on Tuesday.
Sasai, 52, was considered an expert in embryonic stem cell research and co-authored two research papers published in January in the journal Nature that detailed a seemingly groundbreaking method of harvesting stem cells to grow new human tissue. Sasai and lead author Haruko Obokata reported having successfully altered ordinary mouse cells into versatile stem cells by immersing them in a mildly acidic solution. The resulting cells were named stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells.
Comment: An old man in Gaza held a placard that said: "You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back."
Since inception in 1948, Israel has systematically become a terrorist state. Its hypocrisy, disinformation and subterfuge authorize self-permission for genocide, destruction, ruthless brutality--including using extreme methods against itself in order to further an agenda (as in the murders of three Israeli teens blamed on Hamas and the killing of its own IDF soldier in order to violate the recent ceasefire). It has purposefully and willfully brought Gaza to the brink of collapse while, without mercy, the death toll of innocent civilians keeps rising. Who will stop this massacre? Who will hold Israel (and accomplices) accountable? And, what is taking so long?