PubPeer catches image reuse in Cell paper

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PubPeer (highlighted previously on Labrigger) caught some shenanigans that apparently the reviewers and editors at Cell did not. Here’s the comment from PubPeer, and here’s the paper.

Figure 2F (top image) and the left side of Figure 6D (second image) are the same set of cells, but are presented as different in the paper.

Here’s a second example of image/data reuse from the same paper. Figure S6 reused the same exact data for two panels. The two panels even appear right next to each other in the figure.



And here’s a third example. The right half of Figure 6D and the leftmost image in Figure S5 are the same image, but presented as different in the paper.

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