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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.

Have you recently read an important paper from your field that you’d like to recommend to your colleagues? Send us the reference, along with a couple of lines about what grabbed your interest, and we’ll pass it along in Insights.

Thoralf Niendorf picked a paper on the future possibilities in brain MRI: What if we could generate much stronger magnetic fields?

Nikolaus Rajewsky recommended a number of papers during his recent lecture series on RNA. This one from the Burge lab at MIT also involves neurons. Have you recently read an important paper from your field that you'd like to recommend to your colleagues?