In: Literature

The EQIPD Framework
September 6, 2022

The EQIPD framework for rigor in the design, conduct, analysis, and documentation of animal experiments was published today. It defines the demands for…

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Additional reads in June 2022
June 16, 2022

European Journal of Behavior Analysis: women, men, and authorship Are there any good experiments that should not be done?  ‘Robot scientist’…

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Considerations for implementing electronic laboratory notebooks in an academic research environment
June 16, 2022

Stuart Higgins and colleagues describe in this review article the use of electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) from different perspectives. First, they…

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Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement: mixed-methods stud
June 16, 2022

In this article, the authors analysed researchers’ compliance with their Data Availability Statement (DAS) from manuscripts published in open access journals…

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Blind spots on western blots: a meta-research study highlighting opportunities to improve figures and methods reporting
June 16, 2022

Western blotting is a standard laboratory method used to detect proteins and assess their expression levels. Unfortunately, poor western blot image…

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Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?
June 16, 2022

In light of the reproducibility crisis, there is a growing awareness that the rigorous standardization of experimental conditions may contribute to…

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Testing the reproducibility and robustness of the cancer biology literature by robot
June 16, 2022

Scientific results should be reproducible and robust. However, when reproducibility is tested, it is often not found (often termed ’reproducibility crisis’),…

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What has preclinical systematic review ever done for us?
June 16, 2022

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses deliver a crystallized understanding of the existing research data in any given space. However, grappling with the…

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Reanalysis: the forgotten sibling of reproducibility and replicability
June 16, 2022

Ensuring reproducibility and replicability has been an issue in many scientific disciplines in the past decade. In this commentary, Matthew Faria…

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Preregistration of animal research protocols: development and 3-year overview of preclinicaltrials.eu
June 16, 2022

Although commonly acknowledged and applied in clinical research since 2000, preregistration of animal studies is not yet the norm. In 2018…

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