キャリアニュース2019年8月2～8日

“You are about to witness a thesis implode,” I declared to my summer student. As I ran the critical sample through the flow cytometer, my trembling hand betrayed my nervousness that the result would confirm my worst fears: I had been fooling myself. Three years prior, I had been a bright-eyed first-year Ph.D. student. “This is guaranteed to give you data,” my mentor had said of the project he wanted me to take over. Preliminary data suggested that a poorly understood protein might trigger immune cells to kill cancer cells. It was an exciting possibility, but I was concerned. The previous rotation student had been unable to replicate the finding and wasn't convinced the protein did anything at all. But I couldn't turn down a project that sounded so promising. </br>![][1]</img> ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER > “I had been spinning a story … instead of critically examining the facts.” To my relief, a new batch of protein I prepared yielded striking results. The science unfurled in