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Statement of RetractionWe, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Cell Cycle, have retracted the following article:Bing Wen, Chenjiang He, Qin Zhang, Fanglin Zhang, Na Li, Yan Pan, Mengting Deng, Yue Wang, Jianping Li and Jiaxuan Qiu. Overexpression of microRNA-221 promotes the differentiation of stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth to neurons through activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway via inhibition of CHD8. Cell Cycle. 2020;19(23):3231-3248. doi: 10.1080/15384101.2020.1816308Since publication, concerns have been raised about the integrity of the data in the article. When approached for an explanation, the authors checked their data and confirmed there are fundamental errors present. Therefore, they have agreed to the retraction of this article. The authors apologise for this oversight.We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.