SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Falsification Charge Highlights Image-Manipulation Standards
Gretchen Vogel
The University of Minnesota announced last week that an academic misconduct committee had concluded that a 2001 journal article contains "falsified" data images, but the paper's lead author, a graduate student in prominent stem cell researcher Catherine Verfaillie's lab at the time, rejects that claim and says she followed the standards of the time for handling images.