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Technical issues provoke concern over biology paper

Embryo results prompt editorial note in Science.

Nature, which publishes a Corrigendum on research from 1993 in this week's issue (see 'Data handling causes image problem for top lab'), isn't the only leading journal to put out an editorial note in recent weeks. On 27 October, Science printed an 'expression of concern' about a developmental-biology paper published in the journal in February. The short statement said that "there is an ongoing investigation of this study by the University of Missouri", home of the research team, and that "the results reported therein may not be reliable".

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 08, 2006
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