I work @addgene.bsky.social curating DNA and web content - if I liked your paper, are you sharing your materials?
#OpenScience supporter, previously at ASCB, science publishing/preprints. Yale Biophysics PhD. Opinions my own. He/him
Mike Lacy
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Has anyone observed mNeonGreen getting brighter after photobleaching?
Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins.
forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data.
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reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...