It was recently brought to our attention that a paper published in 2015 by Bin Wei, Qiaoying Huang, Xiaogang Zhong.
Wei B, Huang Q, Zhong X. Upregulation of nucleostemin in colorectal cancer and its effects on cell malignancy. OncoTargets and Therapy. 2015;8:1805–1814.
Plagiarized significant portions of the text and several figures published in 2014:
Seyed-Gogani N, Rahmati M, Zarghami N, et al. Nucleostemin Depletion Induces Post-G1 Arrest Apoptosis in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia K562 Cells. Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 2014;4(1):55–60.
The editor and publishers take the view that this is completely unacceptable. This paper is retracted.