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Science sleuths find 100 suspicious images in Thermo Fisher antibody catalogue (nature.com)
12 points by randycupertino 15 days ago
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Essentially Thermo Fisher has been photoshopping their antibody offerings. Here's the original thread on twitter id-ing them:

https://x.com/addictedtoigno1/status/2056072770987970825

The photoshopped blot is still on their page: https://www.thermofisher.com/antibody/product/p53-Antibody-c...

The majority of antibodies for sale are garbage and can't be trusted off the rack without internal validation!!