Retraction Note: Journal of Biomedical Science (2014) 21:19 http://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/21/1/19
The Editor-in-Chief retracted this article because of concerns regarding a number of figures presented in this work. These concerns call into question the article's overall scientific soundness. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered similarities in the six gels presented in Figure 1. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the research presented in this article.
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