STAT+: Pharmalittle: Where is PhRMA in the abortion pill debate? Most late-stage MS drug trials were never published

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Amid an investigation of alleged research misconduct, Stanford University’s president took responsibility for the decision not to correct or retract a paper at the heart of the controversy and defended his actions, STAT reports. That decision concerned a major study published in the journal Nature in 2009 and co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university’s president and a renowned neuroscientist who at the time was a top researcher at Genentech, a Roche unit. His response came days after Genentech released findings from its investigation of past research co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne.

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