The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted one paper1 and issued an “expression of concern” about two others2 within days of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital announcing that they had asked various journals to retract 31 papers from a laboratory once hailed for pioneering stem cell research but now discredited by findings of research misconduct.
The articles came from the laboratory of Piero Anversa, who came to prominence when he appeared to produce evidence for his long standing contention that science had underestimated the heart’s capacity for self repair.
In its retraction notice, NEJM said that several of Anversa’s coauthors asked the journal to retract the 2011 study Evidence for human lung stem cells.
The unnamed authors wrote to tell NEJM that a review by Harvard …

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NEJM曾被誉为心脏干细胞先驱者，撤回了前研究员的文章

《新英格兰医学杂志》已经撤回了一篇论文1，并在哈佛医学院和布里格姆妇女医院宣布几天后要求其他期刊从实验室撤回31篇论文，并发表了对另外两篇论文的“关注表达” 2。用于开创性干细胞研究，但现在因研究不当发现而声名狼藉。
这些文章来自皮耶罗·安沃萨（Piero Anversa）的实验室，当他似乎为他长期以来的论点证明科学已低估了心脏的自我修复能力而证明这一点时，他就出了名。NEJM
在撤回通知中说，Anversa的几位合著者要求该杂志撤回2011年的研究人类肺干细胞的证据。
这位未具名的作者写信告诉NEJM哈佛大学的评论……