Category Archives: cell biology
Exclusive: University of Glasgow seeking retraction of multiple papers after findings of image manipulation
The University of Glasgow is requesting the retraction of multiple papers by a pharmacology researcher who held various positions there for more than a quarter century. The story begins in December 2016, when biostatistician Steven McKinney posted on PubPeer about a paper by the researcher, Miles Houslay, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. That paper … Continue reading Exclusive: University of Glasgow seeking retraction of multiple papers after findings of image manipulation
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Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target prediction
Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target prediction Posted August 13, 2018 by post-info Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the July issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Crowdsourcing image analysisPosted by in cell biology, computational biology, featured, genetics, halloween, Microbiology, Uta Frith, Xenokeryx
PLOS Biology in the media – July
PLOS Biology in the media – July post-info The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month we’re covering sleeping flies,Posted by in Biology, Blog, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, Evolution, featured, genetics, molecular biology, open access, plos biology, Research
The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break It
The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break It post-info by Ann Stock The post-translational addition of phosphate groups to serine, threonine and tyrosine residues is a fundamentalPosted by in Biology, cell biology, Cell signalling, featured, molecular biology, open access, plos biology, PLOSBio15, Research
Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, modelling chromatin dynamics, ant obstacle courses
Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, modelling chromatin dynamics, ant obstacle courses post-info Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the May issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Quantitative theory of deep brain stimulation ofPosted by in cell biology, computational biology, Disease, ecology, environment, featured, PLOS Computational Biology
Caught Our Notice: A team from Harvard, Cornell, Cambridge, HHMI, and UCSF can’t reproduce a paper’s findings
What Caught Our Attention: Any time there’s an issue with a paper co-authored by researchers from such high-profile institutions as Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Cambridge, we take notice. In this case, the group — which included Laurie Glimcher, then-dean at Cornell, now president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — chose to retract a … Continue reading Caught Our Notice: A team from Harvard, Cornell, Cambridge, HHMI, and UCSF can’t reproduce a paper’s findings
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PLOS Biology in the media – March
0000-0002-8715-2896 PLOS Biology in the media – March post-info March has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology with lots of research hitting the press. A selection of our top picks this month includePosted by in Biology, cell biology, Disease, ecology, Evolution, featured, neuroscience, open access, plos biology, Research
Caught Our Notice: Duplicates, errors prompt two retractions for same author
Titles: 1) Angiopoietin-Like 4 Confers Resistance to Hypoxia/Serum Deprivation-Induced Apoptosis through PI3K/Akt and ERK1/2 Signaling Pathways in Mesenchymal Stem Cells 2) Novel Mechanism of Inhibition of Dendritic Cells Maturation by Mesenchymal Stem Cells via Interleukin-10 and the JAK1/STAT3 Signaling Pathway What Caught Our Attention: In the span of 48 hours, PLOS ONE retracted two papers … Continue reading Caught Our Notice: Duplicates, errors prompt two retractions for same author
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Caught Our Notice: “The first author cut the thermoprinter paper printout into pieces and reassembled them”
Title: A mitochondrial ferredoxin is essential for biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins What Caught Our Attention: Here’s a cut-and-paste issue that gave us pause. The authors of an 18-year-old paper in PNAS corrected it after realizing some bands in a figure were duplicated (an issue raised on PubPeer one year ago). It turns out, the … Continue reading Caught Our Notice: “The first author cut the thermoprinter paper printout into pieces and reassembled them”
Understanding Images: Traffic jam causes immune cell road rage
0000-0002-8715-2896 Understanding Images: Traffic jam causes immune cell road rage Posted February 23, 2018 by post-info Authors: Steven J. Del Signore and Avital A. Rodal, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, UnitedPosted by in Biology, Blog, cell biology, collection, community, featured, genetics, Image, Issue Image, open access, PLoS Biologue, PLoS Genetics, Research, Understanding images