is officially retracting the article entitled, A Biomimetic Emu Oil-Blended Electrospun Nanofibrous Mat for Maintaining Stemness of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells, by Jalilzadeh-Tabrizi S, Pilehvar-Soltanahmadi Y, Alizadeh E, Alipour S, Dadashpour M, Nejati-Koshki K, and Zarghami N (Biopreservation and Biobanking 2018;16(2);66–76. DOI: 10.1089/bio.2017.0056) due to the submission of the same images to different journals for different purposes, but without any attribution, reference, or reproduction permission.
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