Hwang Woo Suk: all eyes on journals’ conflict of interest policy
Published in The Hindu on January 26, 2006 Hwang Woo Suk of Seoul National University, one of the biggest science fraudsters of the 21st Century, has now successfully turned the…
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Editorial: Cord blood banking
Seventeen years after the first successful transplantation of stem cells harvested from the umbilical cord, the use of cord blood as a viable alternative to bone marrow as a source…
New antimalarial agent shows promise
Published in The Hindu on June 17, 2015 A new antimalarial compound (DDD107498) tested on mice and several mosquito species has shown great promise, says a study published today (June…
Surprising discovery of oxygen in 67P comet’s atmosphere
Published in The Hindu on October 29, 2015 The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has thrown a very big surprise — its atmosphere contains molecular oxygen. Based on our current thinking, the presence…
Fake journal publishing flourishes in India
A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also called as predatory journals) — has become more insidious and…
