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Thanks to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), which is committed to educating authors on best practices in publishing, figure preparation, and reproducibility, we’re presenting the seventh in a series, Forensics Friday.
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Ok, I don’t get it. How is this fabricated data? The red box around that band doesn’t tell me anything here?
There’s a splice faintly visible on the right side in the red box.