"Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical sciences to tackle the reproducibility crisis, researchers in France and the Netherlands are offering funds and resources in exchange for a few months of work. "We are trying to use"
"wants laboratories to revisit a 2012 study that suggested tiny, fluorescent carbon nanoparticles can detect copper ions inside living cells. This could have medical relevance because high copper levels are linked to diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The paper, authored by a team led by Yang Tian, a chemist at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, is part of a wider research effort to develop engineered nanoparticles for various applications in imag"
NanoBubbles is funding and resourcing a targeted replication effort of a 2012 study that reported tiny fluorescent carbon nanoparticles could detect copper ions inside living cells. The initiative offers funds and laboratory resources in exchange for a few months of experimental work to either reanalyze published data or repeat experiments from scratch. The ability to sense intracellular copper carries potential medical relevance because elevated copper levels associate with cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The project frames replication as a tool for scientific self-correction and is supported by an 8-million European Research Council grant.
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