RETRACTION: Selection for TRAIL Resistance Results in Melanoma Cells with High Proliferative Potential

RETRACTION: J. J. Wu, X. D. Zhang, S. Gillespie, and P. Hersey, “Selection for TRAIL Resistance Results in Melanoma Cells with High Proliferative Potential,” FEBS Letters 579, no. 9 (2005): 1940–1944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2005.02.041.

The above article, published online on February 25, 2005, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Michael Brunner; FEBS Press; and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed upon following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party, which revealed inappropriate duplications of image sections within the article (Fig. 2A, 3A-C, 4A-B) depicting different experimental conditions. The authors were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation and due to the elapsed time the raw data was not available. Given the extent of the identified issues, the editors have lost confidence in the data presented and the article's conclusions can no longer be considered reliable.