By: Björn

The hidden message
December 20, 2018

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Guidelines rule! And not only in the area of preclinical biomedical research
December 20, 2018

Thanks to this ‘Christmas Tree Decoration Guide’ we can finally decorate a Christmas tree properly and in a reproducible manner…

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Collection of resources for the use of R in study design and analysis
December 20, 2018

In the recent report on „Digital tools and services to support research replicability and verifiability”, Caroline Skirrow and Markus Munafó have argued that…

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The SOD1 mouse – 10 years later
December 20, 2018

It has been more than 10 years since two seminal papers by Ludolph et al (2007) and Scott et al (2008) have introduced recommendations for…

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Balancing futility and benefit – Is academic research ready for higher research quality standards?
December 20, 2018

byAnton Bespalov (PAASP)Adrian G. Barnett (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)C. Glenn Begley (BioCurate, Melbourne, Australia) *For a condensed version of this…

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Additional Reads in December 2018
December 20, 2018

Statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine How sure are you of your result? Put a number on it Design preclinical studies for…

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To Read More Papers, or to Read Papers Better? A Crucial Point for the Reproducibility Crisis 
December 20, 2018

To Read More Papers, or to Read Papers Better? A Crucial Point for the Reproducibility Crisis  A huge number of new…

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How to design preclinical studies in nanomedicine and cell therapy to maximize the prospects of clinical translation
December 20, 2018

Reproducibility in preclinical research may be low because of the high prevalence of biases and of suboptimal research practices (such as…

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Reproducible research practices, transparency, and open access data in the biomedical literature, 2015–2017
December 20, 2018

In this article, the authors analysed potential sources of bias in 149 randomly selected biomedical research papers published between 2015 and…

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Digital tools and services to support research replicability and verifiability
December 20, 2018

Digital tools hold promise for improving replicability and verifiability of scientific research. In this paper, the availability and use of such…

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