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Article: Nature douses dilution experiment.
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- July 30, 1988
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NATURE douses dilution experiment
An investigative team organized by NATURE reports in the July 28 issue that the results of a controversial dilution experiment published in the journal four weeks ago are "not reproducible in the ordinary meaning of that word." A repeat performance got four positive and three negative results at the University of Paris-Sud laboratory of Jacques Benveniste, who led the original 13 researchers.
In the original experiment, a solution of antibodies appeared to evoke a reaction from certain white blood cells and change their ability to hold a stain even after the antibody solution had undergone 120 tenfold dilutions (SN: ...