Retracted papers damage work on DNA repair

Abstract

Focuses on the retraction of a 1997 paper on genetic disorder called Cockayne syndrome and its implications for work on DNA repair. Revelations about the misdeeds of Tony Leadon, formerly a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Finding of a university panel in 2003 that Leadon was guilty of fabricating and falsifying findings in his research on DNA repair.