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The article reports on a research team at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California condemned by its rival group of international academics for their failure to give credit to their pioneering work in a paper published in the periodical "Cell" in June 2008. It states that the issue has raised concerns about the pressure facing researchers to produce scientific scoops. The paper focuses on an area of cell biology known as planar cell polarity. Professor Peter Lawrence, lead author of the original study, said the present paper is seriously flawed.