If you hurry , you 'll alarm people
In the article about cloning of embryonic cells, errors were found
An error was found in an article by scientists who reported on May 15, 2013 about the first successful isolation of stem cells from human embryos obtained by cloning. Three illustrations duplicate each other, and their captions are mixed up; the analysis conducted by the Nature magazine (Fallout from hailed cloning paper) states that there are no grounds to see this as a malicious falsification of the results.
The initial article by researchers from the University of Oregon, led by Shukhrat Mitalipov, was illustrated with three pairs of duplicate images. In addition, the captions to them also did not correspond to the text of the article, and commentators quickly noticed this. Mitalipov made the appropriate changes, but the editors of Cell, where the article was published, had to make an official statement.
According to Emilia Marcus, acting editor-in-chief, mistakes should be recognized as insignificant and do not affect the scientific value of the research results as a whole. A number of experts interviewed by Nature also agreed that the probability of forgery is extremely low, but called for an investigation; Martin Pera, a stem cell specialist from the University of Melbourne, said that "the explanations are convincing, but we must wait for the results of a thoughtful investigation." Another scientist, Robin Lovell-Budge from the National Institute of Medical Research in London, stressed the actual meaninglessness of such substitutions of captions to illustrations to falsify results: "this is simply not the data that should be manipulated." Mike Rossner, a former editor of Rockefeller University Press and the journal Cell Biology, adds that errors in signatures occurred to him in a quarter of all sent manuscripts, but only in one percent of cases this could distort the meaning of the study as a whole.
The story with the error, as reported in Nature, may damage the editorial office rather than Mitalipov. The scientists' article was accepted just three days after receiving the manuscript and published in 12 days: by the standards of scientific journals with their mandatory review of submitted papers, this is very fast.
Against the background of past scandals related to the manipulation of the results of cloning experiments, such speed borders on haste.
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