
A university in France has stripped a researcher of her doctoral degree after she was found to have committed misconduct in at least two studies of yeast.
As we reported in May, Marjorie Petitjean, who received her PhD from the National Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of Toulouse, was accused of having fabricated and manipulated data while in the lab of Jean-Luc Parrou — who described her output as “a complete work of fiction.”
Petitjean left Parrou’s lab for a post-doc in Scotland, where, he said, she continued her bad habits:
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