Fraud Strikes Top Genome Lab

摘要

It is every scientist's nightmare: An editor calls saying he needs to talk urgently about a paper you've submitted. A reviewer thinks there's something weird in the data. It can't be too bad, you tell yourself, because you've read the manuscript a dozen times, and the smart people in your lab have been plowing this ground for 2 years. But when you start checking the reviewer's questions, you get a queasy feeling. You dig through the freezer, bring out clones, repeat experiments. Soon there's no denying it: The evidence says you have been the unwitting co-author of a fraud. Now what do you do?