Villain of Molecular Biology: Why are we not reproducible in research?

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Vikash Bhardwaj

Abstract

Worldwide, there is an issue of  irreproducibility in life science research. In the USA alone $28 billion per year spent on preclinical research is not reproducible. Within this opinion article, I provide a brief historical account of the discovery of the Watson-Crick DNA model and introduce another neglected model of DNA. This negligence may be one of the fundamental reasons behind irreproducibility in molecular biology research.

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