I've banged this drum both in conversations and in reviews in the past, but here is a perfect example of how lack of care around gene naming can lead to major issues in publications. Everyone collectively needs to take gene naming and ID reporting very seriously.
Joe Hanly
Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins.
forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
