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Measurements with small sample sizes can become ‘statistically significant’ due to the combination of small sample numbers and measurement error. This produces effects that are not present in the system under scrutiny.

Dr. Emanuel Wyler is a molecular biologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Markus Landthaler lab. He is currently studying the novel coronavirus. For our book review, Wyler (who is by the way a passionate science communicator) has selected a newly-published book that is intended to make systems biology accessible to the general reader.