Japan's well-known cell biologist Watanabe's paper fraud caused international scientific and technological community shock.

In August last year, the University of Tokyo, Japan, received anonymous reports that 22 papers from the university's six laboratories had artificially falsified images and data, and the university set up a special commission of inquiry to investigate the suspected counterfeiting of laboratories.
, the University of Tokyo held a press conference to announce the final results.
nearly a year-long investigation confirmed academic misconduct by the university's world-class cell biologist, Watanabe, who used fake pictures and charts in five published papers.
also confirmed the innocence of five other laboratories at the university, which did not falsified their papers, according to the website of the journal Nature.
Watanabe was a central figure in cell division, and his international peers in his field of study expressed shock at the results.
's five papers, published between 2008 and 2015, were published in the American journal Science, two in the British journal Nature, and one in another prominent molecular biology journal of the Nature Publishing Group.
May, the University of Tokyo's commission of inquiry had completed an eight-month inquiry, which had concluded that the images in the five papers were artificially false.
to take into account Watanabe's reputation, the Commission of Inquiry did not immediately announce the results to the public, wanting to give him time to defend himself.
but the contents of the investigation were leaked to the Japanese media.
in response to media reports, Watanabe said in a public statement online that he acknowledged problems with the five papers on "proteins that guide chromosomal separation in cell division", using several illustrations from different experiments and "processing" and that data from different experimental conditions were "untimely used in a chart."
he also insisted that his inappropriate behavior was not intentional and did not affect the main conclusions of the paper.
the future of scientific research has been seriously affected by the investigation found that the deliberate tampering of pictures and data is a common behavior of Watanabe Jiaxuan Laboratory.
a former member of the lab was interviewed, according to the report, Watanabe had instigated lab members to modify the data to make the paper more credible.
associate professor at the lab had also left the lab for paper fraud.
University of Tokyo has not yet made a final decision on how to deal with the fraud, but will investigate other papers from Watanabe's laboratory.
school has recommended that Watanabe withdraw or amend the five papers.
Watanabe said he had revised one of the papers and was considering withdrawing a 2015 paper published in the journal Science, in which 12 charts contained data fraud.
, although he has not yet announced the punishment measures against Watanabe, but his scientific research has been seriously affected.
march, all members of the lab resigned collectively; $37 million, funded by Japan's Ministry of Science, Watanabe's main research fund, was suspended in March.
the international scientific community expressed shock when Watanabe defended himself through his website in May, and some of the scientists involved in peer-reviewing his paper expressed solidarity with his defense.
I don't think it's impossible, he's not going to deliberately deceive the tech world with fake data," Daniela Simili, a cell biologist at Virginia Tech, said at the time.
" but after the press conference, many scientists were shocked by Watanabe's actions.
Ryan Chesman, a cell biologist at the Whitehead Institute in the United States, said: "Watanabe is at the heart of cell division research, and many of his findings can be repeated, confirmed, and used as a basis for other studies in other laboratories, and are still an important basis for understanding cell division."
" MIT cell biologist Angelica Ammon believes that if Watanabe really falsified the data in the paper, the right and wrong of these findings urgently need to be corrected, scientific research has no gray area, data fraud is scientific misconduct.
not yet responded to the findings in the journal Nature.
the journal Science that it is trying to reach out to the authors and wants to quickly reach a conclusion on the fake papers.
Watanabe himself recently issued a statement on his lab's home page saying that in addition to apologizing for his wrongdoing, he reiterated that his basic conclusions were not wrong.
(Reporter Yu Cuijuan) Source: Science and Technology Daily.