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Massive misuse of chemical probes undermines the utility of these tools

  1. Asher Mullard
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Chemical probes are rarely used according to best practice, suggests a recent systematic review of the chemical probe literature in Nature Communications.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 22, 611 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-023-00105-w

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