Nobel Prize winner Linda B. Buck, who was the co-winner of the 2004 prize for Physiology or Medicine, has retracted the study in a 2001 paper in the journal Nature.
Scientist Linda B. Buck has retracted a 2001 Nature paper this week. She cited an inability to reproduce the reported findings.
She stated there were “inconsistencies between some of the figures and data published in the paper and he original data.”
The retracted paper is in regards to the mapping of the discrete parts of the brain, whic have to do with the last bit of her discovery which landed her a Nobel Prize win.
She Nobel Prize was for the discovery of an entire gene family, 1,000 genes, which codes for the olfactory receptors in the nose.
The paper helped explain smell, and how we recognize certain things based on the sensory cells.