Chocolate health: advice by Thomas Lüscher and peer review by Jonas Malmstedt
Christmas season is the time to eat lots of chocolate. And as science teaches us, your confectionery is actually theContinue Reading
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Collapse of Biotrachea, or how Macchiarini’s greed saved human lives
The trachea transplant experiments by Paolo Macchiarini left many of his trusting patients dead or mutilated. His €5.5 Million EU-fundedContinue Reading
5 retractions and a sack for Pfizer lead cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin
Five months ago, I reported about data integrity concerns in 6 publications authored by Min-Jean Yin, who had been workingContinue Reading
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 1: how Macchiarini got ideas
The trachea surgeon and formerly world-renowned stem cell pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, whose human experimenting left most of his trachea-transplant patientsContinue Reading
Chocolate is good for your funding
Chocolate is good for your health, scientists keep saying. This may sound counter-intuitive; given that chocolate is an extremely calorie-richContinue Reading
Image integrity concerns in papers from a Pfizer lab
Image manipulations are unfortunately a rather widespread practice in biomedical literature, where a large part of research data in figuresContinue Reading
Macchiarini, Birchall, Seifalian and EU-funded human experimenting
The disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has now been officially sacked from Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden, while also the entireContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson: misconduct and regenerative travesty in Sweden
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal draws wider circles, and unfortunately, it involves more unnecessary patient deaths though questionable tracheal transplants, thisContinue Reading
Sonia Melo case: PhD advisor Esteller sham-investigated, postdoc PI Kalluri with $ 80Mio COI
Sonia Melo, Portuguese cancer researcher and recipient of the prestigious EMBO Installation Grant, now has her publications investigated by EMBOContinue Reading
Stem cell cures for everything, Made in Germany by TICEBA
The Heidelberg-based company TICEBA (abbreviated from Tissue & Cell Banking) is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill cell bank. This German company,Continue Reading
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