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The Journal of Bacteriology issued a retraction today (May 25) of a study coauthored by Robert Ryan, nearly two years after a PubPeer commenter first pointed out the study’s figures appeared identical to images in two other papers. The study is among a handful of papers coauthored by Ryan that have been retracted in recent years. Retraction Watch previously reported one retraction each in PNAS and EMBO Molecular Medicine, and one in Molecular Microbiology. In addition, close to a dozen other papers coauthored by Ryan have raised concern on PubPeer.
The latest retraction cites “errors in the construction” of the two figures first flagged on PubPeer. J. Maxwell Dow, a microbiologist at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, “takes responsibility for these errors,” according to the ...
