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Nature 435, 736 (9 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435736b; Published online 8 June 2005

Veracity of raw images can also come into question

Jeremy Adler1

  1. Department of Developmental Biology, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, S106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

Your News Feature "CSI: cell biology" (Nature 434, 952–953; 2005) raises questions about the legitimacy of editing images. In this context, I am regularly surprised at the essentially binary appearance of many published fluorescence microscopy images, with the apparent absence of both intermediate intensities and Poisson noise.