Retraction Note: Anticancer activity of lactoferrin-coated biosynthesized selenium nanoparticles for combating different human cancer cells via mediating apoptotic effects

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Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-023-36492-8, published online 13 June 2023

The Editors have retracted this Article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the data presented in Figs. 5 and 6, specifically:

• Fig. 5 ALF-Se NPs Hep-G2 and Caco-2 images appear to overlap;
• The untreated control images in Fig. 5 appear highly similar to those in the authors’ earlier publications (MCF-7, HepG-2 and Caco-2 in Fig. 3b of^1^, and HepG-2 and Caco-2 in Fig. 2b of^2^);
• Fig. 6a ALF-SeNPs plots appear highly similar to Fig. 3 LP-CNPs+LF-FNPs plots in Fig. 3a of^2^.

The Editors therefore no longer have confidence in the presented data.

All Authors disagree with this retraction.