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Sticky Containers, Vanishing Drugs

Posted on August 29, 2008

There s no end to the variables that can kick your data around in drug discovery. If you concentrate completely on all the things that could go wrong, though, you ll be too terrified to run any useful experiments. You have to push on, but stay alert. It s like medical practice: most of the time you don t have to worry about most of the possibilities, but you need to recognize the odd ones when they show up.One particular effect gets rediscovered from time to time, and I ve just recently had to take it into account myself: the material that your vials and wells are made out of. That ...

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