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How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work
How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles, which studies the barriers to the correction of science. We focus on a controversy in bionanoscience: there are hundreds of scientific articles that report the specific detection of molecules or ions inside cells with nanoparticle probes, yet, when they enter cells, nanoparticles are largely sequestered in specific compartments where they cannot reach the target that they are supposed to detect.
