Unsettling posts start circulating on social media regarding a research paper published by the Negishi Laboratory at Eito University: "Suspected of misconduct! Was some data reused?" Feeling anxious, Prof. Negishi and the members of his lab team begin verifying the paper's data to prove no misconduct occurred...
Prof. Takezawa and her lab, the Graduate School of Agriculture at Ori University, enter into a collaborative research with another senior professor and a food manufacturer to develop a functional food using Red Shiso. While feeling the difficulties of contract terms and communicating among researchers, they build a good relationship as a team.
Prof. Kanzaki, who researched developmental biology in graduate school at Seito University, found hope in joint research with data science. Shimura became in charge of the experiments. The initial results support Prof. Kanzaki's hypothesis, and these made Kanzaki and Shimura pleased. But the initial result became impossible to replicate.