Kenneth Ka-Ho Lee · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Reviewer

Thank you all for your excellent suggestions on improving the data. Personally, I don’t think STAP cells exist and it will be a waste of manpower and research funding to carry on with this experiment any further.

I think this live-blogging is a good and bad idea:

Good in the sense that it will stimulate interest in the scientific community, so helping to draw younger scientists into the stem cell field.

Bad in the sense that you don’t have the time to think and carefully assess the data properly - as everyone expect you to post the results as soon as it is generated. E.g. In my case a 10 folds increase in Oct4 and Nanog expression is definitely not sufficient and we need to see at least 100 folds as in my previous post (see above Figure3 for iPSCs). And for Sox2 it is only at 2 fold increase - which is even worst.

I will no longer blog on this page any more. I want to get back to doing my own science interest.

Anyone want to collaborate with me to look at the function of the BRE gene which is a component of the BRCA1 and BRISC complex?