BioMed Research International has retracted the article titled “Label-Free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Reveals a Panel of Differentially Expressed Proteins in Colorectal Cancer” [1]. As noted on PubPeer, Figures 5(a) and 5(b) show signs of figure duplication in the Western Blots, where the ERP29 row, lanes 1-6, in Figure 5(a) is the same as the TMP3 row, lanes 2-7 in Figure 5(b), though the former is stretched horizontally.
We were unable to contact the authors. The Editorial Board recommended retracting the article.
References
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