Are plastic tools spoiling experimental results?

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Thousands of scientists could be unwittingly ruining their own experiments merely by using standard plastic lab equipment, according to a new study. These findings may have strong implications for the methodology of basic research.

Andrew Holt, a researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, was looking at how drugs affected the human enzyme monoamine oxidase B when he noticed that the drugs seemed to be inhibiting enzyme activity at much lower concentrations than they should

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