By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Breaking news, Central Ethics Review Board (CEPN) decided today on the case of trachea transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The expertContinue Reading
On October 12th 2017, the Swedish prosecutor Jennie Nordin gave a long-awaited press conference about the case of the scandal surgeonContinue Reading
My earlier article about strange image irregularities in the publications of the German mitochondria researcher Roland Lill seem to haveContinue Reading
The French scientific society CNRS, a huge country-wide network of research institutes and one of the most influential science institutionsContinue Reading
Western blot, a method to separate proteins by size and analyse their relative expression levels, is a much maligned techniqueContinue Reading
A scientist was “dismissed” by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. It was the cell biologist Irina Stancheva who specialises on the epigenetics and regulatory methylation of DNA. Her institutional website was deleted just hours after I sent my email inquiries to her former faculty colleagues.
UCL has completed the investigation into the affair around their past honorary professor Paolo Macchiarini and the trachea transplants. The report avoids implicating Macchiarini’s partner Martin Birchall. The only guilty party is the nuclear physicist Alexander Seifalian.
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