and a collection of the sibling series (and a few more), Points of Significance - www.nature.com/collections/...
I feel like I am echoing the editorial, but the Points of View and Points of Significance series were very influential to my scientific journey. I am thrilled to see Points of View come back, being helmed by @helenajambor.bsky.social who has already done great work amongst the microscopy community
Run controls. Always. Anything short of that isn't science. Full stop.
While this is newly out of date by one article, here is a record of the past articles
blogs.nature.com/methagora/20...
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
The #ThermoFisher #antibody scandal is an ugly reminder, I think, of how few people (including those at TF, it seems) are trained to properly validate antibodies before use. Some advice on antibody validation in the posting 👇
totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2022/09/18/h...