The manuscript had amassed more than 50 comments about problematic figures and data on PubPeer.

It’s the latest fallout from an investigation by Harvard and Brigham and Women’s into work overseen by Piero Anversa.

A second investigation by the school concludes that David Latchman, also the head of Birkbeck, University of London, was not involved in the image manipulation found in papers he coauthored.

It includes more than 18,000 papers and conference materials that have been retracted since the 1970s.

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.

An investigation finds regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson manipulated data in seven papers.

The authors of a preprint recommend that journals implement better image screening procedures before publishing articles.