Reproducibility

I introduced the previous blog about our InnovATEBIO webinar ( To Reduce Variability/Enhance Reproducibility: Begin at the Beginning ) with a story about pH measurement. In the experience described in that blog, I was trying to measure the pH of a difficult solution, one with a high pH and containing urea. As it turns out, problems with pH measurement have continued to bubble up periodically in my life, even when my knowledge of such measurements is considerably more sophisticated than it was long ago. The table below shows data from a team of my... Read more

In May, my colleague, Jeanette Mowery, and I presented an InnovATEBIO webinar: To Reduce Variability/Enhance Reproducibility: Begin at the Beginning . This is the first of two blogs about that webinar.

Before discussing the webinar, I’ll share a personal story. Many years ago I was thrilled to land a postdoc position in a cancer research laboratory where I worked on a project involving the role of DNA adducts in initiating breast cancer. One of the reagents that I required had a pH of 10, and it included a relatively high concentration of urea. This reagent frustrated... Read more