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Prestigious cancer research institute retracts 7 studies amid controversy over errors

Seven studies by researchers at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were retracted in the past two months after a scientist blogger claimed that images used in the studies were manipulated or copied. The retractions are the latest development in a months-long controversy over research done at the Boston-based institute, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical… Read More »

Government databases should withdraw information, a legal expert explains

In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery of creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the paper and assembled a team to investigate what went wrong. Retractions… Read More »