Science is Hard

By Charles Twardy

Cross-posted from RM’s PI’s blog. Nature Communications has anĀ inspiring pieceĀ about a DARPA project baking replication into the original study. The DARPA Biological Control program applies independent validation & verification (IV&V) to synthetic biology. The article is a Lessons Learned piece. Although DARPA oversight presumably mitigated the element of competition, the IV&V teams had at least…