Corrections (and one EoC) propagate for distinguished plant biologist,...
There may be some deeply rooted issues in the work of high-profile plant biologist Olivier Voinnet, biology department research director at ETH in Zurich. Corrections have continued to pile up months...
View ArticleCell biologist Hanna issues two errata; images mysteriously disappear from Imgur
Cell biologist Jacob Hanna, the highly cited stem cell researcher currently at the Weizmann Institute of Science, has posted a long erratum for a 2005 paper in Blood for “inadvertent mistakes,” among...
View ArticleVoinnet notches second retraction, two more corrections
Olivier Voinnet — a plant researcher who was recently suspended for two years from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) after an investigation by ETH Zurich and CNRS found evidence...
View ArticleFormer UCSF grad student fudged data in two papers
A former graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco “knowingly falsified and/or fabricated” data in two published papers, according to the Office of Research Integrity. According...
View ArticleAuthor appeals retraction after co-authors dispute Nature Comm paper
Two weeks after Nature Communications published a paper on asymmetric cell division in July, it posted a retraction notice saying the paper was submitted “without the knowledge or consent” of all but...
View ArticleDutch investigation of researcher violated rules of “fair play”: Ombudsman
The National Ombudsman of The Netherlands has criticized some aspects of an investigation by Utrecht University that found a researcher had committed “a violation of academic integrity.” Specifically,...
View ArticleAuthor with three retractions objects to mega-correction following investigation
We’ve uncovered a “mega-correction“ for a 2010 paper in Development, posted as the result of an investigation into the first author which has already led to three retractions. Last year, the Utrecht...
View ArticleBiology journal bans plagiarizers, reviewers with non-institutional email...
DNA and Cell Biology has declared it will ban any authors who submit plagiarized manuscripts for three years, and will no longer accept suggestions of reviewers with non-institutional email addresses....
View ArticleCholesterol paper duplicated; “The authors believed that they had taken the...
A review journal is pulling a 2013 article about advances in researchers’ understanding of cholesterol after seeing the same article in another journal. Although the retracted paper appeared first —...
View ArticleStem cell researcher who sued Harvard, Brigham & Women’s is leaving his post
A stem cell researcher who sued his employers, Harvard and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, is headed to Switzerland. Piero Anversa‘s departure follows the dismissal of his suit last summer. Anversa...
View ArticleFive years after a retraction, company’s stock is up more than 500%
Is ethical behavior good for business? Five years ago this month, Swedish pharmaceutical company WntResearch immediately notified shareholders when authors retracted a 2009 Proceedings of the National...
View ArticleFour retractions follow Swedish government findings of negligence, dishonesty
A Swedish ethical review board has censured two biologists and their employer, Uppsala University, for events related to “extensive image manipulations” in five papers published between 2010 and 2014....
View ArticleIVF embryo paper pulled for plagiarism, errors, lack of permissions
A journal is pulling an article (with approval of “most” of the authors) because a similar paper had already been published in Chinese. That wasn’t the only problem with “Aneuploidy analysis of...
View ArticleSecond of 3 retractions appears for biologist, the result of “a substantial...
A cell biologist who falsifed Western blots has notched a second retraction, with one more expected after a investigation at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. First author Sudarsanareddy...
View ArticleList of retractions, corrections grows for Duke researchers
Duke researcher Michael Foster and his former co-author Erin Potts-Kant are adding to their notice count with a major correction from late last year to a paper on how certain cells in mice respond to a...
View ArticleAuthorship dispute fells membrane paper
A membrane paper has been retracted only two months after publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B because of an authorship dispute. The paper, “Magnetic Interaction of Transition Ion Salts...
View ArticleJACS imaging paper “under editorial review”
The Journal of the American Chemical Society has issued an expression of concern over “the presentation of results” in a 2014 paper about a new probe for use in imaging. We haven’t heard back from the...
View ArticleJournals flag 6 papers, request investigation of New Jersey university...
Two journals have published six expressions of concern for a pair of biologists at Rowan University, and are asking the university to undertake an investigation. We contacted the editors of the two...
View ArticleSperm paper impaired by “corporate company” analysis
Without a certain protein, mouse sperm have motility disorders. That’s the conclusion of a paper that has itself been stopped — by errors in the data analysis, carried out by a third-party company. The...
View ArticleHeart researcher faked 70+ experiments, 100+ images
A former researcher at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago faked dozens of experiments and images over the course of six years, according to a new finding from the Office of...
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