March 6, 2008
Biology Papers in Prominent Journals May Be Frauds
The harsh label of scientific misconduct is being applied to the work of a South Korean biologist.
A researcher at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, known as Kaist, was suspended on Friday, according to news-media reports, for fabricating data. The problematic data appear in two papers about ways to manipulate human cells that were published in highly influential journals. The articles by the scientist, Tae Kook Kim, appeared in 2005 and 2006 in
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