Gotta rant… I am not going to see the Elizabeth Holmes movie and it’s making me kind of crazy that it’s becoming a phenomenon, because the Theranos story is about who got fooled, not who fooled them. This jaunty @wired.com piece is reasonable all things considered www.wired.com/story/how-el...

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To me, he was* the dad on Picket Fences, RIP *other than Viper, of course

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Unfortunately this project took so long to bring to fruition that I decided to drop some of the quantitative aspects. Anecdotally I can tell you that most papers that mention both "caspase-3" and "MCF-7" inadvertently characterise the expression or activity of the missing protein.

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Yes! Papers are still being published today with cell lines that are perfectly well known to be HeLa contaminated. L-02 is a good example. I hope the heuristic advanced in preprint might provide another tool to challenge incorrect cell lines/non-specific antibodies.

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Well I'm not "blaming" AI - I'm just pointing out that it is one of the limitations of so called "super intelligence". There's also a useful clue in there for people wishing to identify AI generated papers.

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