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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean biotechnology professor agreed to retract two papers on anti-aging technology published in international science journals after the institute discovered he fabricated data, officials said Friday.
Kim Tae-kook, a professor at the state-run Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, acknowledged that he forged data on a paper on anti-aging technology that was published by the journal Science in 2005 and a follow-up report published by Nature Chemical Biology in 2006, said Seo Yeon-soo, a member of the KAIST investigation team.
Science issued a statement Friday alerting its readers "that serious questions have been raised" about the validity of the findings in the published papers.
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