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Doubts over biochemist's data expose holes in Japanese fraud laws

Tokyo university decides that RNA work is not reproducable.

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Fuyuno, I., Cyranoski, D. Doubts over biochemist's data expose holes in Japanese fraud laws. Nature 439, 514 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439514a

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