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145Inference from chemistry supports statements of the form that a dry lyophilised peptide sealed in a vial is expected to tolerate transient warming far better than the same peptide in aqueous solution. That is a well-supported general proposition. It does not support a statement about a particular parcel, because the parameters that determine the outcome — the glass transition temperature of that formulation, the moisture content, the integrity of the closure, the actual exposure — are all unmeasured.{{r|ich_q1a,ppexcursion}}145Inference from chemistry supports statements of the form that a dry lyophilised peptide sealed in a vial is expected to tolerate transient warming far better than the same peptide in aqueous solution. That is a well-supported general proposition. It does not support a statement about a particular parcel, because the parameters that determine the outcome — the glass transition temperature of that formulation, the moisture content, the integrity of the closure, the actual exposure — are all unmeasured.{{r|ich_q1a,ppexcursion}}
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+147Recipient observation is weaker than it appears. Community reports that material used after warm transit produced no noticeable difference in effect suffer from a specific set of defects: no pre-exposure analytical baseline, so any deficit cannot be attributed to transit; no measurement of the exposure, so the reported condition is a guess; no blinding, and a subjective endpoint; and survivorship, since material that was visibly ruined is discarded rather than reported. The absence of a noticed difference is also a low-sensitivity endpoint — a 15% loss of active peptide is unlikely to be perceptible and would be a serious analytical finding.{{r|ppexcursion}}
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147== References ==149== References ==
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