The authors of a 2006 paper have retracted their article following an extensive correction in January, 2025. "Death-receptor activation halts clathrin-dependent endocytosis", published in July 2006 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Most of the authors were affiliated with the biotech company Genentech. Commenters on PubPeer raised issues about possible image duplications, spurring the authors to review the work. The January correction addressed about two dozen instances of image splicing and duplication in five of the paper’s figures.

But biologist and scientific sleuth David Sanders identified another image duplication in the paper. Prashant Nair from the PNAS news office told at the time it was "inadvertently omitted", and the journal would update the correction notice to include the duplication. But on May 15, 2025 the article was retracted instead. The statement, attributed to the authors, concludes, "At this time, we believe that retraction, rather than further correction, is the most prudent course of action".

Source  https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/23/genentech-authors-flip-pnas-study-from-corrected-to-retracted-following-retraction-watch-coverage/

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