This happens if you do not stick to standardized gene names and abbreviate protein identifiers, folks! p16-INK4a and p16-ARC are two different proteins, encoded by genes CDKN2A and ARPC5. Yet scientists abbreviate the first to p16, and then order the antibodies to p16-ARC...
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...
