Images faked by UCSF postdoc
A University of California, San Francisco, postdoc ripped off images from a colleague and jiggered data files, the NIH's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) recently linkurl:reported.;http://ori.dhhs.gov/misconduct/cases/Afshar.shtml Nima Afshar, a postdoc working with UCSF molecular biologist linkurl:Joachim Li,;http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/li_joachim.php falsified microarray scans related to the molecular mechanism of yeast replication initiation. Specifically, she fudged images from another
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