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Yoshiki Sasai (笹井 芳樹, Sasai Yoshiki, 5 March 1962 – 5 August 2014) was a Japanese stem cell biologist. He developed methods to guide human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) into forming brain cortex, eyes (optic cups), and other organs in tissue culture.
Sep 3, 2014 · Metrics. Stem-cell biologist who decoded signals in embryos. How does a fertilized egg — a single cell — produce the myriad specialized cells that assemble into three-dimensional...
- Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
- abuylla@stemcell.ucsf.edu
- 2014
Aug 5, 2014 · TOKYO—Yoshiki Sasai, a noted stem cell scientist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, who co-authored two controversial and later retracted papers that reported a simple way of reprogramming mature cells, was confirmed dead this morning, an apparent suicide.
Jun 6, 2019 · Yoshiki Sasai pioneered the organoid field with his idea of mimicking embryonic development in 3D. We shine a spotlight on his seminal work describing how the innate ability of embryonic stem cells to self-organize into layers and grow in a polarized fashion fosters their appropriate differentiation and response to morphogens.
- Jessica Mariani, Flora M. Vaccarino
- 2019
Aug 5, 2014 · Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, guided research published in the journal Nature that purported to show a revolutionary method of...
Aug 6, 2014 · Yoshiki Sasai, who supervised and co-authored stem-cell research papers that had to be retracted due to falsified contents, was found suffering from cardiac arrest at the government-affiliated...
Aug 5, 2014 · A senior Japanese stem cell scientist has died in an apparent suicide. Yoshiki Sasai, who recently co-authored two controversial papers on stem cells, was found dead at his laboratory, the...
