The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the request of Fei Xu. The article contains substantial overlap with another article previously published in Chinese by different authors [1].

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   Fei Xu & Lixin Na

3. Department of Inspection and Quarantine, Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Shanghai, 201318, China

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Xu, F., Na, L., Li, Y. et al. Retraction Note to: Roles of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signalling pathways in neurodegenerative diseases and tumours. Cell Biosci 11, 157 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13578-021-00667-5

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• Accepted: 23 July 2021

• Published: 06 August 2021

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13578-021-00667-5