Nobel Winner Buck Retracts Two Studies on Smell
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Linda Buck, co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, retracted two papers on nerves that carry scents from the nose to the brain, according to scientific journals.
The papers appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and Science in 2006. They were retracted because the scientists couldn’t reproduce findings by Buck’s former postdoctoral researcher Zhihua Zou, the journals said in statements posted on their websites today. Zou didn’t sign either retraction.