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... And How the Problems Eluded Peer Reviewers and Editors

SciencePublished 5 January 2006Open access
Jennifer Couzin
Citations45
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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TL;DR

When Science 's editors received a submission describing 11 embryonic stem cell lines created from the DNA of ailing patients, they recognized its potentially explosive importance, but little did they or the nine outside researchers who examined the paper with varying degrees of scrutiny realize just how explosive the paper would be.

Abstract

STEM CELLSWhen Science 's editors received a submission describing 11 embryonic stem cell lines created from the DNA of ailing patients, they recognized its potentially explosive importance. But little did they, or the nine outside researchers who examined the paper with varying degrees of scrutiny, realize just how explosive the paper would be. ([Read more][1].) [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5757/23

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Medicine