Alveolar rhabdoymyosarcoma cellsWIKIMEDIA COMMONS, MAHESHA VANKALAKUNTI ET AL.
A cancer biologist falsified images in two papers, the Office of Research Integrity reported earlier this month (June 9).
According to the notice, Philippe Bois, a former postdoctoral student in biochemistry at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, used misleading data for one image in a 2005 Journal of Cell Biology paper and completely faked another image in a Molecular and Cellular Biology article published the same year. In the first paper, Bois used a Western blot to suggest that the tumor suppressor gene, FOX01A, was not expressed in biopsies of a rare type of muscle cancer called alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, even though other blots showed evidence of expression, the ORI found. In the second paper, Bois fabricated gel electrophoresis data on proteins that help orchestrate the ...
