How similar are the protein names of p16INK4a and p16-ARC? Hundreds of scientists were confused in more than 300 papers

An odd story! 

For lay people, these two names are not similar at all, I would presume! Maybe you have to be an egghead to confuse these two names! 😊

"Hundreds of scientists who study cancer and aging have deployed the wrong antibody to test for a key protein, according to a researcher who exposes errors in the biomedical literature. Instead of antibodies that recognize p16INK4a, a tumor suppressing protein that may also promote aging, these researchers used versions that tag the similarly named protein p16-ARC, which helps shape the cell’s molecular skeleton.

The gaffe appears in more than 300 papers, including some published by top journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, eLife, and Science Advances, reports Sholto David, a molecular biologist at the U.K. biotech OXB and a part-time error hunter. David’s latest revelations, posted on 2 June on the blog For Better Science, have sent researchers digging through old lab notebooks and, in at least one case, back to the lab to rerun experiments. ..."

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