Ushma Neill, PhD

Editor at Large, Journal of Clinical Investigation Editorial Consultant, Molecular Metabolism Director, Office of the President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

experimental samples

loading control

Journals use software from the ORI to screen all figures- Can detect abrupt edges and changes in pixelation

no splice

splice

WT -/-

sham Treatment 1 Treatment 2 sham Treatment 2 Treatment 1

The right way to splice

Accompanying note in legend indicating lanes were noncontiguous but from same blot at same time

The JCI now requires submission of a supplement (for Editors’ eyes only) that contains the full uncut gels for every blot

Figure 2 Figure 7

Article retracted after institutional investigation