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Doubts over stem cell images prompt new inquiry

By Peter Aldhous and Eugenie Samuel

5 August 2009

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(SOURCE: AJP – CELL PHYSIOLOGY, DOI: 10.1152/AJPCELL.00324.2008)

 (SOURCE: PNAS, VOL 97, P 10538)

(SOURCE: PNAS, VOL 97, P 10538)

Update 16 March 2010: Jizhen Lin’s paper in the American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology has been retracted by the American Physiological Society. It states: “aspects of the data presented have now been shown to be unreliable”. The University of Minnesota’s investigation into Lin’s research continues.

Update 11 November 2009: The University of Minnesota’s inquiry into the work of Jizhen Lin has proceeded to a formal investigation. However, the university has decided not to launch an inquiry into a concern with a separate paper, by authors including Yuehua Jiang and Catherine Verfaillie, which…

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