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The big deal are these papers: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126...ce.1058445 and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1059391.  Tessier-Levine is the senior author here, and is accountable for it.  Moreover, they were published in one of the top two journals (along with Nature), so they are a BIG deal papers.

Those two papers (Feb & Mar 2001) have the same first author (Elke Stein) whose bio is here.

In Fall of 1997 I started my postdoctoral training with Marc Tessier-Lavigne at UCSF. Here my studies provided key insights into the molecular mechanism that developing axons use to contribute to the establishment of the neuronal circuit in vertebrates. My favorite and most frequent comment that I liked to hear from Marc Tessier-Lavigne was “go for it”, thus giving me totally independence in my research.

In 2003 I was recruited to Yale University as a Faculty member in the Department of MCDBiology with a joined appointment in the Department of Cell Biology in the Yale School of Medicine.

Apparently currently a Visiting Faculty Scholar at Stanford (but I haven't confirmed that is actually current).


2001....  21 years ago (probably submitted a year before that).  In those days, just getting a paper into the right format for a journal was a feat.  I can imagine getting graphics so they print right was also a challenge. For instance, different monitors & printers would show (or not show) different colors.   I get the sense that some people have a new tool (image manipulation detection) and are assuming that any manipulation is for the purposes of falsifying results.  If someone published the same data without the accompanying image, I guess they get a pass.   However, I haven't read any details on this particular concern, so I don't know what corroborating or contradicting evidence there is that the data isn't legitimate.

[M T]

The big deal are these papers: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126...ce.1058445 and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1059391.  Tessier-Levine is the senior author here, and is accountable for it.  Moreover, they were published in one of the top two journals (along with Nature), so they are a BIG deal papers.

Those two papers (Feb & Mar 2001) have the same first author (Elke Stein) whose bio is here.

In Fall of 1997 I started my postdoctoral training with Marc Tessier-Lavigne at UCSF. Here my studies provided key insights into the molecular mechanism that developing axons use to contribute to the establishment of the neuronal circuit in vertebrates. My favorite and most frequent comment that I liked to hear from Marc Tessier-Lavigne was “go for it”, thus giving me totally independence in my research.

In 2003 I was recruited to Yale University as a Faculty member in the Department of MCDBiology with a joined appointment in the Department of Cell Biology in the Yale School of Medicine.

Apparently currently a Visiting Faculty Scholar at Stanford (but I haven't confirmed that is actually current).


2001....  21 years ago (probably submitted a year before that).  In those days, just getting a paper into the right format for a journal was a feat.  I can imagine getting graphics so they print right was also a challenge. For instance, different monitors & printers would show (or not show) different colors.   I get the sense that some people have a new tool (image manipulation detection) and are assuming that any manipulation is for the purposes of falsifying results.  If someone published the same data without the accompanying image, I guess they get a pass.   However, I haven't read any details on this particular concern, so I don't know what corroborating or contradicting evidence there is that the data isn't legitimate.