Macchiarini’s German (ex-)friends: Jungebluth and Bader
The trachea-transplant “super- surgeon” Paolo Macchiarini seems to be sitting out the Swedish investigations of his misconduct and patients’ deathsContinue Reading
Tag: misconduct
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 loses EMBO YIP Funding, suspended as PI
Sonia Melo, the Portuguese scientist accused of data manipulation and misconduct, now loses her EMBO Installation Grant funding by the EuropeanContinue Reading
Blatt is back: “open debate cornerstone of scientific process”
Michael Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plant Physiology, is backContinue Reading
The Duodecuplication of a Wandering Western Blot
This is a story of western blot, which might be holding the current record of re-use. While other papers areContinue Reading
Macchiarini and Karolinska: the biomedical ethics meltdown
Paolo Macchiarini, the charismatic star surgeon and stem cell pioneer, once lauded for saving lives of suffocating patients, is now reallyContinue 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
Jingmai O’Connor interview: if you have valid criticisms, publish them!
Jingmai O’Connor, a 32-year old professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Continue Reading
Zombie Scientists
There are zombie papers, those are the long-discredited or even misconduct-riddled publications, which somehow avoid retractions and continue contaminating scientificContinue Reading
Olivier Voinnet loses EMBO Gold Medal, Sonia Melo investigated by EMBO
News piece: The former star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet, currently professor at the Swiss elite university ETH Zürich has nowContinue Reading
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