The Authors in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief of the “European Biophysics Journal”, the European Biophysical Societies’ Association, and the publisher hereby retract the article entitled “Attractive interactions prevail in dilute solutions of human recombinant α-crystallins” by Georgalis Y, Peschek J, Appavou MS; published online in the “European Biophysics Journal” on January 10, 2013. This article is retracted due to unsolved legal reasons.