A social-media sleuth known as Student Geng has released a series of videos highlighting cases of alleged research misconduct.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature China’s national funding agency has reprimanded and penalized four senior academics and their colleagues after a sleuth flagged data anomalies in their published papers. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) found violations
The β-galactosidase molecule can be targeted by antibodies in experiments. But some studies have erroneously used the antibody that targets the bacterial β-galactosidase instead of the mammalian version.Credit: Laguna Design/Science Photo Library More than 50 studies on cell ageing have apparently used the wrong antibody to identify a key protein in experiments, according to a
