A pox on people who publish papers without telling you what the reagents are!
Alphabet soup acronyms are only OK if they are so commonly used in the field that you can be reasonably sure that a) everyone knows what you're talking about, AND b) the actual description of the reagent is easily Googleable from the acronym.
Hint: if you feel the need to define "4% PFA" in the methods section, you're not going to get away with an antibody against "F5y34g.2b" without telling us what protein you're actually detecting. Jerks.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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"Googleable" is an awesome word.
also, when they reference a really old, obscure, and unobtainable article for how they made a key reagent. Jerks.
personally, the ones that site Blah, unpublished drive me up a wall
This is one of the top ten blog post titles of all time.
A pox on those who came up with a reagent and you can't get it because there is some little niggly thing in the MTA that the lawyers can't agree on, but all the scientists do.
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