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“We said, ‘We need a card-carrying scientist to be involved in this. That’s the only way anyone is going to believe us,’ ” Vacanti recalled.
And they needed someone who was not only skilled, but malleable.
Mature scientists, Vacanti said, have committed themselves to a certain destiny.
Just as stem cells specialize into muscle cells or nerve cells, for example, scientists might go down the road of studying the immune system or genetic engineering.
Once they are committed to a field and to their ideas, they are far less flexible.
“Older scientists were never going to abandon what they were taught. We needed someone who was flexible enough to explore different possibilities,” Vacanti said. They needed a student.
In 2008, a Japanese graduate student, Haruko Obokata, took up the project, and succeeded in much more rigorously replicating the 2001 work that had attracted so much criticism.
Two years later, at a conference in Florida, Vacanti met with Obokata and her mentor from Japan, Masayuki Yamato, from Tokyo Women’s Medical University.
He asked them not to make fun of him. Then, he proposed that maybe the isolation procedure was actually creating the cells.
He wondered if Obokata would return and see whether this was true.