The authors retract the article titled “Spontaneous Human Adult Stem Cell Transformation,” which was published in the April 15, 2005 issue of Cancer Research ( 1 ). Upon review of the data published in this article, the authors have been unable to reproduce some of the reported spontaneous transformation events and suspect the phenomenon is due to a cross-contamination artifact. Five of the seven authors have agreed to the retraction of this paper.
Ricardo de la Fuente
Antonio Bernad
Department of Immunology and Oncology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, UAM Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
Javier Garcia-Castro
Department of Immunology and Oncology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, UAM Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario del Nino Jesus, Madrid, Spain
Maria C. Martin
Juan C. Cigudosa
Cytogenetics Unit, Centro National de Investigaciones Oncological, Madrid, Spain
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