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The high-profile case of the two recently retracted stem cell papers from Nature, arguably the world's most prestigious science journal, demonstrated what may become a common narrative – and also a common attitude among editors.
The two retracted papers follow the withdrawal of two other stem cell papers noted by the blog Retraction Watch, which began only in August.
High-Profile Stem Cell Papers Under Fire.
Nature retracts controversial stem cell papers.
Key Researcher Agrees to Retract Both Disputed Stem Cell Papers.
Nature reviewers not persuaded by initial STAP stem cell papers.
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An inquiry panel has found what it called "significantly flawed" data in a major stem cell paper published in Nature in 2002.
This is the second time that a major stem cell paper has come under criticism, the previous episode involving the collapse last year of Hwang Woo-suk's claims to have generated embryonic stem cell lines from adults.
Lee subsequently turned his live-blogging log into an official review, declaring the stem cell paper nonreproducible.
Mitalipov, who also contributed to the Cell Stem Cell paper, maintains that nuclear transfer creates more stable cells that more closely resemble embryonic cells.
On Friday 22 October, the group surfaced again, this time charging that a stem cell paper in PNAS published in 2009 contained duplicated images, pointing to Figure 5A.
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