Now you all know why no big pharma didn’t touch and will never touch the TSUJI project.
This is why the big players avoid the Tsuji model.
Because they're a bunch of dinosaurs tackling hair loss in the conventional way, with drugs or metabolism manipulation. Good luck with that.
If this model makes it to the market in the next years, it will be a offense to all scientists working on hairloss.
The only offense concerning the scientists working on hairloss (and there's only a handful of them) is that they're beating a dead horse. Christiano is working on drugs which will never work on Androgenetic Alopecia, Cotsarelis is taking advantage of a non-primary evolutionary loophole which God knows whether it will yield results equal to cell regeneration and why should it, Histogen is a joke that doesn't address or circumvent the problem and most likely doesn't work.
If you're part of Replicel I suggest telling your superiors next time try culturing both stem cell types that are necessary for the development of an organ instead of half-assing the job.
What I can say is that scientific integrity is key for FDA and EMA approval
This is what Tsuji said about the incident, by his words it was a simple mistake in the handling of the data and the pictures and it didn't even clash with their conclusions. Why would they counterfeit data to reach to the same conclusion?
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In September of 2011, an editor have informed me that the JBC office have received complaints concerning our published paper in JBC from a reader. We have checked the indicated figures in compared to those source files according to the complaints carefully and found our mistakes.
We have displayed the data of Western blot analysis for beta-actin and we had used the same data in several figures by our mistake. After the Western blot analysis for many samples, only the image for target protein was transferred to figure file by the trimming of the source file. In these processes, those mistakes would be occurred. We checked original source files and experimental notebook carefully, and confirmed the existence of those original data with reproducibility. Furthermore, the meanings and explanations about our results in our paper are correct and need not to change the explanation in response to the replacements of those figures, even if the incorrect WB is replaced with correct one in those figures.
However, we should sincerely apologize to being our careless to prepare those figures and troubling on readers of JBC. Thus, we have withdrawn our paper by ourselves. We do not plan to withdraw another our published paper in near future.
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Also I really hope you're not a scientist, because the people that can't separate the message from the messenger are the same people who wank each other off while constructing pointless bullsit papers by the pound just to get that sweet grant money.
Tsuji's hair germ regeneration paper validity can be tested by reproduction. Not finger pointing.
And you really think if this becomes an industry in Japan the FDA will drop a tried and tested, multibillion dollar approach because "muh integrity"? While rich people all over the world are flocking to tokyo for medical tourism?
The things I've read on this forum..