More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies

Garisto, Dan

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Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

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  1. Dan Garisto

Thousands of antibodies sold by multiple research vendors have images associated with their catalogue entries that seem to have been digitally altered, according to a scientific-integrity specialist.

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Nature 657, 17-18 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02635-w

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