By: Björn
NC3R Workshop: ‘Improving peer review of in vivo research proposals’
September 10, 2018On May 9th, 2018, a workshop hosted by the NC3Rs about „Improving peer review of in vivo research proposals“ and included…
Read More“Andromeda and Orion of modern biomarker research”
September 10, 2018Amyloid beta (Aß) accumulation in the brain is regarded as one of the histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. However, Aß build-up…
Read More“Research quality is an urgent matter”
September 10, 2018In the March 2018 issue of the newsletter, we have previously discussed that the research rigor & reproducibility discussion starts to…
Read More“How to pick an electronic laboratory notebook?
September 10, 2018Commentary about the Nature-Toolbox article by Roberta Kwok (August 6th, 2018) Laboratory Notebooks (LN) play a key role in research since…
Read MoreAdditional reads in September 2018
September 10, 2018“Cluster Failure”: fMRI False Positives Revisited Journals and refereeing: toward a new equilibrium In the name of reproducibility There is an…
Read MoreNeuroscience 2018 Satellite Symposium
September 10, 2018Quality in preclinical data: Increasing the robustness and validity of behavioral and physiological testing in animal studies This meeting will take…
Read MoreGenetic and transcriptional evolution alters cancer cell line drug response
September 10, 2018In this paper, published in Nature, the authors analysed how different cancer cells are – not so much from the original…
Read MoreTo Have Practical Relevance, Scientific Claims Need to be Accurate
September 10, 2018For all different stakeholders within the scientific community (researchers, reviewers, editors, policymakers, funding agencies, journalists, and the general public) it is…
Read MoreGuidelines on statistics for researchers using laboratory animals: the essentials
September 10, 2018There is a growing concern that flawed statistics and deficient reproducibility in biomedical studies results in an unethical waste of animals…
Read MoreA randomised controlled trial of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (IICARus)
September 10, 2018The ARRIVE guidelines are widely endorsed but compliance is limited. The IICARus Collaboration group sought to determine whether journal-requested completion of…
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