A particularly exciting research paper catches your eye. You start to read it in detail, carefully studying the methods, figures, data and logic. To your growing horror, you realize that a few of the blots and gel images look as though they have been digitally manipulated. You immediately inform the j ournal of your suspicions and are told that the editors will 'look into it'. But after months of silence, you begin to wonder if that phrase is just a euphemism for inaction.rnIt isn't - certainly not at Nature or any of the other Nature-branded journals. We make a concerted effort to forestall such problems by spot-checking the images in at least two papers of each issue before publication.
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