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What do polymers and social amoebae have in common? Controls!

But all the time we spent agonizing over the right controls taught Alona in a visceral way that controls were important, that an experiment without the right controls would need to be repeated, and that the right controls were not always obvious. … In an experiment like this one, we can do the whole thing over with the exact same clones, just to be sure there wasn’t some bias on a given day. Continue reading

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