A promising drug developed by a young pharmaceutical laboratory. a scientist who sets out to investigate questionable data; and finally, a possible large-scale fraud was exposed regarding Alzheimer’s disease; These are the ingredients of the extraordinary story revealed by the magazine this week. Science. Matthew Schrag, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee, United States), plays the role of the investigator, and French biologist Sylvain Lesne, who was exiled to the United States after his doctorate and is now at the university, plays the role of the alleged forger. Head of his own laboratory, The Lesné Laboratory, at the University of Minnesota. Matthew Schrag’s findings are threatening “One of the most famous studies of Alzheimer’s disease of this century and many related experiments” promote the journal Science. It refers to an article prepared and published by Sylvain Lesnay in 2006 Nature.
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Source: Le Figaro
