Anne Peyroche, who was removed as interim head of France’s National Center for Scientific Research in January, committed scientific misconduct, according to the French Academy of Sciences.

Olivier Voinnet and Patrice Dunoyer face consequences for misconduct that led to the retractions of numerous high-profile papers.

The move follows two major corrections to a 2011 Nature paper, in which researchers demonstrated that a natural compound selectively kills cancer cells.

The correspondence points to routine data-massaging at a high-profile lab.

Anne Peyroche has been acting president of the French science organization since last October.

Are scores of British scientists faking data and plagiarizing?

Around one out of every four cancer papers scrutinized in a recent study contains questionable figures, and journals and authors aren’t responding to requests for clarification.

Institutions where RNA interference scientist Olivier Voinnet has worked are looking into allegations of misconduct.