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Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.
Catalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain images that have apparently been manipulated, according to a pair of researchers who specialize in scientific-integrity issues.
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Nature 654, 303-304 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01706-2
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