Bioinformatics, RNA, benchmarking & educating to fund kayaking and fishing. ลtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa/New Zealand. From Whฤngฤrฤ.
Paul Gardner
Unreliable and underperforming antibodies are a longstanding problem, so while the reveal of apparently manipulated antibody data in Thermo Fisher's catalog was a shock, the frustration it sparked among many researchers is perhaps no surprise.
My reporting:
Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.
Viral non-coding RNA structure annotation and API-based data retrieval with Rfam and R2DT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.10.724034v1
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Game over, phylogeneticists! New DNA foundation model "Carbon" reconstructs the tree of life. ๐ huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...
Why did a reputable journal publish such a shoddy meta-analysis? Why did it rack up so many citations? Why did it get reported so widely?
I'd guess that the answers to these questions all stem from the US's neoliberal allergy to public goods. 1/๐งต
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...
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Trying to teach my students about robust literature sources. What are some general rules of thumb folk use?
-avoid MDPI/Fronteirs
-check authors have expertise in the area
-avoid hyper-prolific authors who span MANY fields
-check excessive # of references haven't been retracted
-read!!!
"The sheer arrogance of this coalition Government, and its lack of accountability to the electorate is breathtaking." newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Chantzi et al. examined the prevalence of perfect inverted repeats across 118,019 complete genomes, showing that they exhibit distinct genomic features and sequence compositions, while being strategically positioned at key regulatory elements.
๐ doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag089
#genome #evolution
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