The discredited blood-testing company announced its decision to close in a company-wide email.

Changsheng is found to have forged records for a rabies vaccine and is accused of distributing thousands of substandard DPT immunizations to be used in children.

The company raised more than $700 million based on false claims to investors, according to the complaint.

Ashutosh Tiwari, who falsely claimed to be affiliated with Linköping University, is also under investigation for alleged scientific misconduct and fraud.

Virginia Tech’s Yiheng Percival Zhang was arrested for misusing grant funds from the federal government.

Scientific misconduct motivated Yoshihiro Sato’s three additional retractions last month; his institution doesn’t respond. 

Authors of rescinded papers see a 10 percent to 20 percent decline in citation rates for their other publications. 

Nature Plants explains how it handled a manuscript coauthored by Patrice Dunoyer, a biologist with multiple retractions to his name.

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