The editors regretfully retract the article [1] by Jabbar Khan, Sanaullah Khan, Sobia Attaullah, Ijaz Ali, and Shahid Khan (BMC Cell Biology 2012, 13:8) due to significant overlap with previously published article “Overexpression of Active Aurora-C Kinase Results in Cell Transformation and Tumour Formation” by Jabbar Khan, Frédéric Ezan, Jean-Yves Crémet, Alain Fautre, David Gilot, Marine Lambert, Christelle Benaud, Marie-Bérengère Troadec, and Claude Prigent (PLoS ONE 6(10): e26512. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026512). We apologise to all affected parties for the inconvenience caused.