Macchiarini leaves Russia: federal grant denied and Kazan lab shut down
Paolo Macchiarini is leaving Russia, his research and surgery stint there is over. The fallen star surgeon was able toContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Lack of transparency in ERC funding decisions, by Shravan Vasishth
Academic research is dependent on funding, and funding agencies, both public and charity ones, play a crucial gatekeeper function inContinue Reading
Ciaran’s success story
Trachea is a very difficult organ to transplant, because its blood supply happens through many tiny blood vessels and itContinue Reading
Judge in Jungebluth trial announces to uphold his injunction, dismisses all evidence
Today I stood my second injunction trial (previous here), and once again, the evidence was irrelevant. Today’s trial of PhilippContinue Reading
CNRS lab of Voinnet’s right hand Patrice Dunoyer dissolved by director’s decree
The lab of Olivier Voinnet’s right hand man at IBMP Strasbourg has been dissolved. The news about the end of Patrice Dunoyer’s scientific career appeared on my site long before the information became official.
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson guilty of misconduct and unethical experiments on children
Game over apparently near for the indestructible Swedish regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, after investigations at her University of Gothenburg drawContinue Reading
COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
Will words or actual evidence count in the Walles case?
On March 16th I stood a court trial by the trachea transplanters and University of Würzburg professors Heike and ThorstenContinue Reading
Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
The Kenneth Chien Case at Karolinska, by Johan Thyberg
This is a new guest post from Johan Thyberg, a retired professor for cell and molecular biology from Sweden, aContinue Reading
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