Withdrawals

Prestigious cancer research institute has withdrawn seven studies amid controversy over errors

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Seven studies by researchers at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have been retracted over the past two months after a science blogger claimed that the images used in them had been manipulated or duplicated. The retractions are the latest development in a months-long controversy surrounding research at the Boston-based institute, a teaching affiliate of Harvard … Read more

A legal scholar explains that government databases must withdraw information

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In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery in 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. Withdrawals … Read more