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IN view of the increasing use of microbiological methods for the assay of vitamins, amino-acids, etc., I think it important to direct attention to the fact that the method at present employed of computing from the experimental data an estimate of the potency of the material assayed not only is theoretically unsound, but also may in practice give a result which is materially in error.
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30 June 1945
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WOOD, E. Calculation of the Results of Microbiological Assays. Nature 155, 632–633 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155632a0
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