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Interesting read. Unfortunately it then comes to a sentence like this: "For his PhD on asthma, Johnston developed a technique called polymerase chain reaction,
by patall 9y ago
Interesting read. Unfortunately it then comes to a sentence like this:
"For his PhD on asthma, Johnston developed a technique called polymerase chain reaction, which magnifies DNA so that viruses can be identified more precisely."
which make me not sure what to believe: Is that bad spelling or has the author not even basic knowledge of modern biology?
- hanniabu 9y agoI'm not well educated as I have no idea what you're referring to, mind pointing out what in specific was misspelled or not correct.
- danieltillett 9y agoThe problem with the quote is Jonston neither invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) nor are most cold viruses DNA viruses (most are RNA).
- patall 9y agoExactly. PCR is THE backbone of modern biology, I would suspect an author writing about it know at least what it is. I assume she meant 'adapted' instead of 'developed' but still, it sounds fishy and makes you unneccessarily question every other sentence of the article.
- mrob 9y agoThe reporter also called cholera a virus. You can't expect too much from science reporting in mainstream newspapers.
- bhickey 9y agoThe writer is mistaken, but cholera pathogenicity is caused by a virus. A temperate phage carries the genes for cholera toxin and infects cholera bacteria.
- danieltillett 9y agoThis is certainly true. Of course if they can't report science correctly what chance do they have on any other subject that I don't know about :)
- TeMPOraL 9y agoZero. Why people believe anything that's in mainstream news is beyond me.
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