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Science 8 November 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5289, pp. 908 - 910
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5289.908
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News & Comment

Eliot Marshall

Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Project, has informed colleagues that a junior researcher in his lab faked data in five papers Collins co-authored. Many of Collins's peers think he handled the incident well once the fraud came to light, confronting the alleged wrongdoer swiftly and retracting all or part of the tainted papers.

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