Last night I dreamt that I was in a lift without any walls. It kept rising until I was about to fall off and then I was awaken. I was wondering what it meant until I met my boss just now. He told me we had received reply regarding our manuscript. We were REJECTED ( I didn't even manage o get to the reviewers!) and boss told me he somehow anticipated this as our findings were somehow too preliminary.
Comments from the Section Editor:
The differences observed in this study seem relatively small and it would be important to confirm the data by real-time quantitative RT-PCR, for which the cDNA obtained during the study may be suitable. It would be important to confirm the results by protein analysis and if possible by siRNA experiments to show the functional relevance of this finding. If the hypothesis is that reduced expression affects p53 function, then looking at p53 expression by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR would be helpful. What was the p53 mutation status of these tumours?
We hope that you will submit further work on this important group of
tumours to us.......
There are 2 options for me now, either I polish it up and send to another lower impact factor journal, or to follow the comments and pursue further work. Boss ask me to think about it and let him know my decision.
Well, I can't pretend that this is a good news for me, yet neither I want to be discouraged by this. The comments are very valid. I'll really have to give some serious thoughts about it, but maybe after I get back from my honeymoon trip next week.
~I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~ Thomas A. Edison
1 comment:
hahahaha as my friend said "welcome to rejection club!!" =) relax la~~
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