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Gods vs Earth Giants
November 17, 2018

by Elena Koustova In the long gone Soviet higher (university-based) education system there were no electives. As aspiring biologists (e.g. natural…

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Additional Reads in November 2018
November 17, 2018

Further commentaries, articles and blog posts worth reading: Meet Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing Reboot undergraduate courses for reproducibility…

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Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results
November 17, 2018

In this article, 29 independent research teams used the same data set to address the same research question: whether soccer referees…

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Meta-analysis of amantadine efficacy for improving preclinical research reliability
November 17, 2018

While L-DOPA remines the gold standard symptomatic treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD), its long-term use is often associated with motor fluctuations…

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Simple changes of individual studies can improve the reproducibility of the biomedical scientific process as a whole
November 17, 2018

Today, the probability of successfully publishing negative/null results in biomedical research is lower than that for positive results. For instance, negative…

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Open Science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond
November 17, 2018

In well designed and adequately powered experiments null findings are often as informative as ‘positive’ results but the current incentive structure…

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Replication Study: Intestinal inflammation targets cancer-inducing activity of the microbiota
November 17, 2018

As part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, this report describes the attempt to replicate critical experiments from the paper “Intestinal…

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Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians
November 17, 2018

In this report, Wang and colleagues present the results of a national survey of nearly 400 consulting statisticians about requests from…

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Reproducibility of Molecular Phenotypes after Long-Term Differentiation to Human iPSC-Derived Neurons: A Multi-Site Omics Study
November 17, 2018

At the presentation of the ECNP Negative Data Award (see above), there was an interesting point made by one of the…

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PAASP’s ‘Data Quality’ workshop at HBIGS
November 17, 2018

PAASP’s ‘Data Quality’ workshop at the Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS) Recognizing the lack of educational courses for students, postdocs…

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