On Western blot loading controls: lessons from Richard Moriggl lab
Western blot, a method to separate proteins by size and analyse their relative expression levels, is a much maligned techniqueContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
After misconduct investigation, Irina Stancheva left Edinburgh, in secret
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.
Alexander Seifalian, UCL’s Persian Scapegoat
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.
Carol Prives, innocent victim of Susana Gonzalez’ data manipulations?
Did NAS Member Carol Prives know anything about these suspected manipulations in her lab’s papers? And how will journals act on the evidence?
Frontiers: vanquishers of Beall, publishers of bunk
It is now quasi official: do not mess with Frontiers. My earlier reporting made it a credible possibility that thisContinue Reading
EU commemorates dead patients of Macchiarini & Birchall with a phase 2 trachea transplant trial TETRA
The European Commission now took 40 days to deny my second Freedom of Information (FOI) Inquiry about the TETRA phaseContinue Reading
John Innes Centre director Dale Sanders rebuffs a non-peer reviewed internet troll
Regarding the Olivier Voinnet scandal and a recent data integrity case in Germany (marginally featuring a current group leader ofContinue Reading
Berlin court grants Jungebluth new injunction against my reporting
The Kafkaesque farce of court injunction trials from German trachea transplanters against me continues. The Landesgericht court in Berlin issuedContinue Reading
Voinnet’s CNRS investigator Catherine Jessus with own data integrity issues
More suspected data manipulations in the papers by the French elite biologists. It was funny enough when the director andContinue Reading
Karolinska embarrasses itself to save two professors
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) is going through turbulent times. The Paolo Macchiarini scandal sensitised the European elite biomedical research centreContinue Reading
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