Verifiable science on modified PCR machine

Verifiable Science on Modified PCR Machine Scientific fraud kills. At Duke, 117 cancer patients received wrong treatments due to fabricated data. At Harvard, fake cardiac stem cell research led to years of invalid clinical trials. At Brigham and Women's, fictional pain studies changed treatment protocols nationwide. These aren't isolated incidents. They represent a systemic problem: in biomedicine, there's currently no way to verify that published experimental results match the raw data from lab instruments. Solving The Problem (We Hope) We set out to take a widely-used piece of scientific equipment and make its results cryptographically verifiable, preventing result falsification. We chose PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) machines - the workhorses of molecular biology that detect DNA sequences in samples, used in everything from COVID testing to cancer research. By adding cryptographic signing directly to the instrument, results can't be altered after they're generated. Think of i ... Read full article.