RETRACTION: A Tumor Microenvironment-Responsive Biodegradable Mesoporous Nanosystem for Anti-Inflammation and Cancer Theranostics.

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J. Wu, S. Niu, D. H. Bremner, W. Nie, Z. Fu, D. Li, and L.-M. Zhu, "A Tumor Microenvironment-Responsive Biodegradable Mesoporous Nanosystem for Anti-Inflammation and Cancer Theranostics," Advanced Healthcare Materials 9, no. 2 (2020): 1901307. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201901307. The above article, published online on 09 December 2019 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Uta Goebel; and Wiley-VCH GmbH. A third party reported that  Figure 3G contained overlapping images between the Control and HMONs samples and that the HBIP (L+) flow cytometry plot in Figure 4F had been duplicated from a previous article by different authors [Zeng et al. 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10717544.2019.1631409)]. These concerns were confirmed by the publisher. Additionally, further investigation by the publisher found an image overlap between the PTT and HBIP (L+) images in Supplemental Figure S17. The authors responded to an inquiry by the publisher and provided original data. A review of the data provided by the authors found additional instances of image overlap between different samples, similar to those identified in Figure 3G. These errors confound the reliability of the original data provided by the authors. The retraction has been agreed to because the evidence of image manipulation fundamentally compromises the editors' confidence in the conclusions presented in the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.