By: Anton Bespalov
The “from-quality-to-system” pendulum
December 20, 2021by Anton Bespalov and Anja Gilis In the dialectics world of the German philosopher Georg Hegel, quantitative changes transform into qualitative…
Read MoreOf peer review and data sharing
November 3, 2021We (preclinical) learn from the Big Brother (clinical). For example, they recognize the risks of bias in study design, conduct and…
Read More“Don’t cut the tree you are sitting on!”
November 3, 2021According to a recent press release from the European parliament, an EU-wide action plan is requested with ambitious and achievable objectives for phasing-out…
Read MoreAducanumab’s approval is not FDA’s failure, it is our failure
June 16, 2021On June 7, 2021, the FDA approved aducanumab, an amyloid beta-directed monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.However, most…
Read MoreThe EQIPD Workshop “Rigor, reproducibility and data management in nonclinical research”
June 16, 2021On 21 April 2021 a virtual EQIPD workshop entitled “Rigor, reproducibility and data management in nonclinical research” was organized in Finland…
Read MoreThe EQIPD principles
June 16, 2021The EQIPD Toolbox now contains a set of principles, which may help scientists, stakeholders and users to better understand what the…
Read MoreEQIPD Quality System published
June 16, 2021The manuscript “Introduction to the EQIPD quality system” was recently accepted by and published in eLife. This publication marks an important milestone…
Read MoreThe Costs of Competitiveness
December 18, 2020In one of the recent Nature issues, there was a piece called “France’s reforms: the costs of competitiveness”. In a nutshell,…
Read MoreA time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together
December 18, 2020Since the seminal paper by Laura Bohn 20 years ago, expectations have built up that biased mu-opioid receptor agonists will deliver what we…
Read MoreIn vivo veritas
October 5, 2020Most of our readers are biologists but nevertheless we are occasionally exposed to medicinal chemistry literature describing novel research tools, lead…
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