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| blind experimental design |
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| used to prevent research outcomes from being influenced by either the placebo effect or the observer bias. To blind a person involved in research (whether a researcher, subject, funder, or other person) is to prevent them from knowing certain information about the process |
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| the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work |
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| PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) |
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| to amplify a single or few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence. |
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