research misconduct, genetics & genomics

Historic meeting on human gene editing; signs of obesity found in sperm epigenome; top 10 innovations of 2015; dealing with retractions

The authors of a review article on genome-wide association studies have retracted the paper due to “substantial textual overlap” with other sources.

An official investigation into a controversial GM rice study carried out with Chinese schoolchildren has resulted in the removal of three China-based researchers.