Hundreds of papers contain impossible western blots, preprint finds
A preprint and accompanying blog by Sholto David reveal that over 200 published papers report impossible protein expression in cell lines whose genes were deleted or mutated, with such errors appearing repeatedly and possibly propagated by LLMs.
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