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Leading cancer researcher retracts 2003 paper for “inappropriate presentation”

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cancer cellOne of the world’s leading cancer researchers, MIT’s Robert Weinberg, has retracted a decade-old paper after finding out it contained errors.

Here’s the notice for “Ras Modulates Myc Activity to Repress Thrombospondin-1 Expression and Increase Tumor Angiogenesis,” a paper originally published in Cancer Cell in 2003: Read the rest of this entry »

Written by ivanoransky

January 15, 2013 at 8:33 am

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