Editing of Images Doesn't Invalidate the Results?

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i've asked the individual who was responsible for generating the plots, and i've not received an answer. Why wouldn't tampering of images invalidate the results? Well, in this case, the editing of the images was in regions of the blot that was unrelated to the data that the experiment was intended to m tm. And so the conclusion from looking at that lot was unchanged.

This past July, a bombshell report in Science magazine suggested that a key Alzheimer’s study might have contained manipulated evidence. What does this mean for over a decade's worth of research? And where does the field go from here?

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