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Building a New Prostate: Newly identified mouse stem cells can grow into a mature prostate gland
22 Oct
When Did the Planet Get Planted?: Photosynthesis may have emerged later than previously thought
22 Oct
Why Women Get More Cavities: After shifting away from hunting and gathering, more pregnancies caused more tooth decay
21 Oct
Hallucinogenic Hand-me-downs: Ancient Caribbean families appeared to share drug paraphernalia across generations
20 Oct
Monster Tag Team: Gigantic black holes threw their weight around in the early universe
17 Oct
Did Volcanoes Spark Life on Earth?: Classic experiment yields new clues to life's origins
16 Oct
Ancient Fish Heads for Land: Fossil braincase adds details to transition from marine to terrestrial vertebrates
16 Oct
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Credit: M. Reyes et al., Blood 98, 9 (1 NOVEMBER 2001) The American Society of Hematology Falsification Charge Highlights Image-Manipulation Standards: The University of Minnesota announced last week that an academic misconduct committee had concluded that a 2001 journal article contains "falsified" data images, but the paper's lead author, a graduate student in prominent stem cell researcher Catherine Verfaillie's lab at the time, rejects that claim and says she followed the standards of the time for handling images.