Blood, Vol. 95 No. 7 (April 1), 2000:
pp. 2211-2211
ERRATUM
Notice
of plagiarized text
Following
publication of the article "A primitive hematopoietic cell is the
target for the leukemic transformation in human Philadelphia-positive
acute lymphoblastic leukemia" in the February 1, 2000, issue of
Blood, by Cobaleda, Gutiérrez-Cianca, Pérez-Losada, Flores, García-Sanz, González, and
Sánchez-García (Blood. 2000;95:1007-1013), large portions
of the text were found to be plagiarized from an article previously
published by Bonnet and Dick, "Human acute myeloid leukemia is
organized as a hierarchy that originates from a primitive hematopoietic
cell" (Nature Medicine. 1997;3:730-737). The essential research and
the findings of the article by Cobaleda et al are original and worthy
of publication; however, the improper use of text from the article in
Nature Medicine is a direct violation of copyright law and
betrays the assumed professional conduct of all authors submitting
manuscripts to Blood.
