Two papers on a potential cancer drug have been retracted following an investigation that found “inappropriate manipulation of bands in gels.”
This makes four retractions by our count for Roman Perez-Soler, an oncologist at the Einstein College of Medicine, and for co-author Yi-He Ling, whose current affiliation is unknown.
Their previous two retractions, which we reported on in 2013, were also for image manipulation. At the time, Perez-Soler told us that Ling “accepted full responsibility for the changes” and he had “returned to his home country.”
The fresh retraction notes, from Molecular Pharmacology, provide a few specifics about the figures that were manipulated this time around.
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