Concerning but not really surprising. They offer about hundred thousand antibodies, a few hundred frauds is likely the tip of the iceberg.

> “Similar image” searches using Google Lens, Bing Images or DuckDuckGo betray hundreds more that we have yet to document

In my experience these would return any image of an antibody (edit) Western blot, not just the exactly matching background. Would be curious to hear others thoughts.

▲ Amorymeltzer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Without engaging in your point, small nitpick: These are images of Western blots[1], not PCR.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_blot

▲ boxed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

From the comments on the article by the author it looks more like 10% so far and they haven't systematically looked. That means ~10% if a probable floor of how much fraud there is.

	▲	sgc 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not according to the complete comment: `More like 10%, but my search has not been systematic. I am mostly looking where I know I will find image issues based on image filenames and “Find Similar Images” searches.` They are clearly saying they think this is likely above average.