The paper, “Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach,” was published in March 2020 and has been cited 610 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. Oops,” Steven Salzberg, a researcher at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and corresponding author of the 2023 paper, told Retraction Watch in an email. Knight’s group responded to the criticism in a follow-up paper, “Robustness of cancer microbiome signals over a broad range of methodological variation,” published in February 2024 in Oncogene. Like Retraction Watch? If you find a retraction that’s not in The Retraction Watch Database, you can let us know here.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2024 19:32 UTC