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When lab teams hide protocol variations that compromise research integrity

Our lab team has been running the same cancer cell line experiments for six months and getting inconsistent results and yesterday I discovered that two people have been using different protocols without telling anyone because they each think their way is better. The PI doesn't know and we have a major grant renewal presentation in three weeks and everyone is just hoping their version of the data looks good enough to present.

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Your teammates are secretly running the experiment their own ways, and a big presentation is coming up.

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