Retraction

The following article from the British Journal of Haematology, ‘A modified version of galectin-9 induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of Burkitt and Hodgkin lymphoma cells’ by Shoko Makishi, Taeko Okudaira, Chie Ishikawa, Shigeki Sawada, Toshiki Watanabe, Mitsuomi Hirashima, Hajime Sunakawa and Naoki Mori, published online on 22 May 2008 in Wiley Online Library (http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com) has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Finbarr Cotter and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to the inclusion in the article of images and data previously published in Blood, 2010;115: 2220-30, Infection & Immunity, 2009; 77: 1337-48, Cancer Science, 2008; 99: 2286-94, Infection & Immunity, 2007; 75: 5223-32, International Journal of Cancer, 2007; 120: 2251-61 and International Journal of Cancer, 2007; 120: 1811-20. The corresponding author, Naoki Mori, takes full responsibility for the duplication of figures in this paper, and states that none of the co-authors were involved in or aware of these events.