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In March 2023, Dorothy Bishop and sixteen other internationally recognised leaders in the field of scientific integrity took the unusual step of sending an open letter to the CEO of CNRS to highlight that “the response [to unambiguous evidence of data manipulation] by institutions, publishers and funders is typically slow, opaque and inadequate, and is biased in favour of the accused, paying…

Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNGO) Q2 2025 Earnings Convention Name August 14, 2025 4:30 PM ET Firm Individuals Robert Erik Holmlin – President, CEO, CFO & Director Convention Name Individuals Michael Okunewitch – Maxim Group LLC, Analysis DivisionVidyun Bais – BTIG, LLC, Analysis DivisionYi Chen – H.C. Wainwright & Co, LLC, Analysis DivisionKelly Gura – Unidentified FirmInvestor Relations –…

Challenging published results is an onerous but necessary task. Today, our article entitled Stripy Nanoparticles Revisited has been published in Small, three years after its initial submission to this journal (3/12/09) and about three  and a half years after the first submission (to Nature Materials, 21/07/09). As its title indicates, the article challenges the evidence for the existence and…

After months of efforts, my co-authors and I are absolutely delighted to share this preprint, which is special in many ways: Said, Maha, Mustafa Gharib, Samia Zrig, and Raphaël Lévy. 2023. “Replication of “Carbon-dot-based Dual-emission Nanohybrid Produces a Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor for in Vivo Imaging of Cellular Copper Ions”” OSF Preprints. November 29. doi:10.31219/osf.io/kf9qe. This…

In the context of the post-publication peer review initiative of the NanoBubbles project, we posted a detailed comment at PubPeer on Two-Photon Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensor Based on Specific Biomolecular Recognition for Selective and Sensitive Detection of Copper Ions in Live Cells; Analytical Chemistry (2013). We also contacted the Editor-in-Chief because some of the findings were suggestive…

Gold injections - how to use the scientific literature to sell snake oil to patients

To know more about the adventures of Dr Doxey, an unscrupulous charlatan ready to do anything to sell his worthless elixir, read the Lucky Luke Western album by Morris. To know more about Goldic, a real story that does not happen in Lucky Luke’s imagined Wild West, but in the present time, in the UK, Germany and possibly other places, where doctors will take your money in exchange of a…

Guest Post: Sensing by Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) : to the Moon and back down to earth again

This is a guest post by Gaëlle Charron, Maîtresse de conférences at Université de Paris Diderot I was about to submit a paper about the detection of atomic ions by SERS the other day. The paper had been in the pipeline for months. I went through a last survey of the recent literature to check for fresh references that it would have been unfair to leave out. When I bumped into a 22 pages review…