By: Björn

Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation
August 17, 2020

Context-dependent biological variation presents a unique challenge to the reproducibility of results in experimental animal research, because organisms’ responses to experimental…

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The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity
August 17, 2020

For knowledge to benefit research and society, it must be trustworthy. Trustworthy research is robust, rigorous, and transparent at all stages…

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Impact of tumour heterogeneity and tissue sampling for genetic mutation testing: a systematic review and post hoc analysis
August 17, 2020

Staff at QED Biomedical Ltd have conducted research to demonstrate how sample bias in patient- derived tumour tissue samples with somatic…

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NIH Request for Information (RFI) aimed at enhancing rigor, transparency, and translatability to improve biomedical and behavioral research involving animal models
August 17, 2020

Since several months, there is a Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) that is charged with…

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Newsletter August 2020
August 17, 2020

NEWS          – PAASP US receives a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant – Read more         …

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Scaling the y-axis
May 29, 2020

One of our colleagues sent us this interesting image from a national TV station. Even though the topic is very sad…

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Newsletter May 2020
May 28, 2020

NEWS The Global Preclinical Data Forum announces the 2020 Negative Data Prize – Read more Dr. Thomas Steckler joins the PAASP Advisory…

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Additional reads in May 2020
May 28, 2020

SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology Against pandemic research exceptionalism Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already Spin…

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The Global Preclinical Data Forum announces the 2020 Negative Data Prize
May 28, 2020

The Global Preclinical Data Forum (GPDF), a partnership of Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB), a non-profit research biotech, and the European College…

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Octopus: The primary research record
May 28, 2020

Created in partnership with the UK Reproducibility Network, the Octopus platform is free to use and publishes all kinds of scientific…

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