The authors of a study on the effects of the hormone leptin on the liver have retracted it from Cell Metabolism, almost four months after the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) determined it contained faked data, courtesy of its first author.
However, the authors say that the paper’s conclusions remain valid, and are supported by new experiments and additional research by outside groups.
Here’s more from the retraction notice: Continue reading Authors retract leptin paper due to “fabricated data”