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Researchers reprimanded
International - Misconduct Cases
Researchers Reprimanded for Cleaning Up Figures
Volume 12, No. 1, December 2003
A prominent German neuroscientist and a Swiss colleague were reprimanded by the German funding agency DFG for altering two figures in a paper published in 1998 in the Journal of Neurochemistry, according to Science (302:763).
Heinz Breer, University of Hohenheim, and Johannes Noe, University of Zurich, were found guilty of research misconduct by a DFG committee that investigated an allegation made by a former postdoc in Breer’s lab. The committee concluded that the researchers committed misconduct because they failed to disclose that they had cleaned up the primer bands in the Southern Blots to make them look more dramatic. The alterations did not affect the paper’s conclusions and the researchers remain eligible for DFG funding.
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