No island of the blessed: self-plagiarism in Taiwan?

I was tipped off that the following two articles presumably represent duplicate publication. I fully support the allegation that the 2002 article from the Journal of Pathology represents a case of self-plagiarism.

Matsubara lab in Japan: Anything goes? (part 3)

Matsubara lab in Japan: Breathtaking reuse of Western and Northern blot bands (part 1)
Matsubara lab in Japan: Breathtaking reuse of histological images and fragments (part 2)

PNAS called, want their gels back

Well OK, they haven’t called yet but they still might. The whistleblower who spotted the hot new Cell paper discussed in the December 5th blog entry (American as Apple Pie) now points out that it has immunoblot slices shared with a PNAS paper published by the same lab on June 14th. Both papers have the same first author. Readers are invited to compare PNAS Figure 1C with Cell Figure 6E.

It’s not over yet, Singapore

Singapore: SMS alert #8 at NUS

American as Apple Pie

A vigilant whistleblower sent me this note.

“With Marc Hauser, safely out of the way, faculty at the Ivy League School Harvard may be looking forward to a peaceful and deserved festive season. Or perhaps not? Unfortunately a hot new publication identifying novel E3 ligase substrates in top journal Cell has a number of funnies in the figures.”

Matsubara lab in Japan: Breathtaking reuse of histological images and fragments (part 2)

Matsubara lab in Japan: Breathtaking reuse of Western and Northern blot bands (part 1)

As we have learned in the previous posting, the language barrier is seriously hampering the impact of M3Blog’s investigative science reports on the English language scientific establishment. Therefore, a compilation in English of presumably manipulated articles (12 to date) from the Matsubara lab is warranted in order to inform the editors of the affected English language journals so that they will take appropriate measures.

Matsubara lab in Japan: Breathtaking reuse of Western and Northern blot bands

A whisteblower alerted me to the fact that the Japanese investigative blog http://blog.m3.com/Retraction
published postings on presumably manipulated articles from the Matsubara lab.
He told me that Dr Matsubara became a professor/director at the department of cardiovascular medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University School of Medicine in Mar 2003 after he had served as an associate professor at the Kansai Medical University, Japan.