Top journals retract DNA-repair studies after misconduct probe

Two influential journals — Science and Nature — have simultaneously retracted papers about DNA-repair processes, after an investigation found that an author had falsified data underlying the studies. In its retraction notice1, Science said that one author — Abderrahmane Kaidi, who was a cancer researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, until 2013 — had falsified data used in the 2010 study. In a statement to Nature’s news team, Cambridge said that it had completed an investigation into Kaidi under its misconduct in research policy, and found that he had misrepresented and falsified data in both papers.

Source: www.nature.com