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Nature 399, 512 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21025
... as Seeburg faces misconduct inquiry
Alison Abbott
Germany's Max Planck Society (MPS) has begun an investigation into whether Peter Seeburg, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, is guilty of scientific misconduct following his courtroom claim that he misrepresented data in a paper published in Nature in 1979 with colleagues from the US biotechnology company Genentech (see above).The investigation was initiated by Klaus Hahlbrock, vice-president of the society's biology section, after Seeburg wrote to Nature and Science arguing that the paper had misrepresented experiments involved in cloning the gene responsible for producing human growth hormone.
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