The Editors of Tissue Engineering Part A are officially retracting the article entitled, Endothelial/Mesenchymal Stem Cell Crosstalk Within Bioprinted Cocultures, by Santoro M, Awosika TO, Snodderly KL, Hurley-Novatny AC, Lerman MJ, Fisher JP. Tissue Eng Part A 2020;26(5–6):339–349. DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2019.0175.
After publication of the article, one of the coauthors of the paper discovered a potential flaw in the analysis that was thought to be dispatched prior to the submission of the paper to Tissue Engineering Part A but was not.
One of the co-editors of Tissue Engineering, John P. Fisher, PhD, is named as the senior author on the paper. Dr. Fisher has expressed deep regret about this error, and in the best interest of the scientific community and the readership of Tissue Engineering, has displayed rectitude in requesting the official retraction of his own article. Additionally, Dr. Fisher and his laboratory have strengthened the internal review processes of data collection and analysis so as to ensure that a similar error does not occur again in the future.
Tissue Engineering remains committed to preserving the integrity of the scientific literature and the community it serves.