The PLOS ONE Editors retract this article [1] because it was identified as one of a series of submissions for which we have concerns about peer review, authorship, and similarities across articles. Image similarities were noted between Fig 3B and Fig 5C in [1], and between Fig 1C in [1] and Fig 1D in [2, 3]. These concerns call into question the validity and provenance of the reported results. We regret that the issues were not addressed prior to the article’s publication.
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Citation: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: The Tumor-Suppressive MicroRNA-135b Targets c-Myc in Osteoscarcoma. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282982
Published: March 29, 2023
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