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I encourage everyone on the listserv to read Bradbury et al's comment in 
Nature, and to pass it on to your colleagues who use antibodies and 
similar reagents.

full text is freely available at

http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-standardize-antibodies-used-in-research-1.16827

Summary:

*To save millions of dollars and dramatically improve reproducibility, 
protein-binding reagents must be defined by their sequences and produced 
as recombinant proteins, say Andrew Bradbury, Andreas Plückthun and 110 
co-signatories.*



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George McNamara, Ph.D.
Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77054
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