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Blog / Science Fail Monday: How a dead salmon taught us about statistics

December 9, 2018March 17, 2019 / Kasey Skinner /

Any scientist knows the importance of a good negative control. A negative control in an experiment is a group of samples or subjects in which no response is expected to…

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Blog / Statistically significant insults for the soul: p < 0.05

March 8, 2016March 9, 2016 / Bailey Peck /

Author’s forward There are days in which a scientist finds herself needing to express her “mean genes.” When an experimental control fails, when Reviewer 3 sinks a paper, when someone…

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Blog / Science Fail Monday: Requiem for a Western Blot

June 1, 2015January 28, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

Requiem for a Western Blot: A Haiku on Reversing the Positive and Negative Electrodes Two weeks to prepare It’s time to transfer this gel Data finally? Excitement building Put the…

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Blog / Inaugural Science Fail Monday: Filter Fail

April 27, 2015January 28, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

For weeks, I struggled to produce a successful harvest of lentivirus. I needed to transduce my pancreatic cancer cell lines with shRNA targeting my gene of interest. This is a…

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