The University of Tokyo confirmed last August that Yoshinori Watanabe tampered with research-related images, and dismissed him in late April.

The scientist was a member of a stem cell research team led by Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka. 

Yoshinori Watanabe of the University of Tokyo was found to have tampered with images in five prominent publications. 

Most of the authors have had papers pulled in the past.

A government investigation concludes that Anil Potti faked data on multiple grants and papers.

Authors retract a paper on grizzlies’ metabolism after finding one person made up data.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice rules that the Canadian Broadcasting Company did not commit libel in its documentary series on fraud allegations against Ranjit Chandra.

The Office of Research Integrity has finally pointed the finger in a case of suspected data manipulation in a 2006 Science paper.

Researchers and entrepreneurs divert food waste from landfills by turning it into a variety of ingenious products.

Disgraced psychology researcher Marc Hauser, who was found guilty of data fabrication and falsification during his time at Harvard, publishes two new papers.

A biomedical researcher whose Nature paper was called into question was found dead in his lab.
 

A paper describing a new method for imaging synapse formation has been retracted after it emerged that the first author falsified data to prove its effectiveness.

Male scientists commit research misconduct more often than their female peers, and senior researchers are more likely to engage in fraud than trainees.

An analysis of retractions dating back to 1977 shows that most papers are retracted due to misconduct.