The official reason: the authors lost access to raw data. The real reason: their “raw data” was utterly fake. They even falsified the time

Faking Raw Data with an Iron Fist

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The official reason: the authors lost access to raw data. The real reason: their “raw data” was utterly fake. They even falsified the time stamps on their Photoshopped “original data” images.

This story is a warning to all the institutional investigations worldwide scurrying to close a case and to dismiss the whistleblowers because the accused scientists presented a low-resolution picture of a purported gel, microscopy photo or a spectral analysis as “raw data”.

The team from Dr. Arati Ramesh's lab discovered a novel family of non-coding RNAs in mycobacteria, showing how they function to specifically control the translation of lipid metabolism & redox-related #genes. https://t.co/l6bcHKe68S#mycobacteria #RNA

Siladitya Bandyopadhyay, Susmitnarayan Chaudhury, Dolly Mehta , Arati Ramesh Discovery of iron-sensing bacterial riboswitches Nature Chemical Biology (2020) doi: 10.1038/s41589-020-00665-7