{
  "id": 3841424,
  "title": "Japan institute defends Nobel Prize winner amid allegations of image duplication",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/japan-institute-defends-nobel-prize-winner-amid-allegations-of-image",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-27T18:26:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Retraction Watch",
    "slug": "retraction-watch",
    "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/27/japan-stem-cell-research-kyoto-shinya-yamanaka-gotham-city-research/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Japan's Kobe University is standing by Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka amid allegations of image manipulation in several scientific studies he co-authored. The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, where Yamanaka works, has described questioning his integrity as \"completely unacceptable.\" A short-selling firm, Gotham City Research LLC, released a report on August 7 alleging image duplication in 10 papers by Yamanaka, published between 2000 and 2020. Yamanaka, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012, was either first or corresponding author on three of the papers. CiRA stated that two of the three papers have already undergone necessary actions, and the others have been corrected. Gotham has shorted stocks of the two Japanese companies, Sumitomo Chemical and Sumitomo Pharmaceutical, which have funded CiRA. The firm's founder, Daniel Yu, expressed skepticism about Yamanaka's work, but CiRA maintains that the allegations are unfounded and disregard the specific facts of each case.",
  "summary": "The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University in Japan is defending Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka against claims of image manipulation in multiple studies on which he was an author. The institute says questioning Yamanaka’s integrity without sufficient evidence is “completely unacceptable.” Yamanaka shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or … Continue reading…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}