By: Björn
Genetic 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…
Read MoreECNP Preclinical Network Data Prize: The Award Winner
September 5, 2018The ECNP Preclinical Network has announced the winner of the Award for the best publication of negative results in preclinical neuroscience….
Read MoreSocial sciences: Replication studies show that 3 out of 5 is good
August 30, 2018Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 Being able to replicate scientific findings…
Read MoreA repository for protocols – protocols.io
August 22, 2018Lenny Teytelman wrote in a Nature – World View article about the necessity to share experimental protocols to be able to…
Read MoreUnambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID
August 21, 2018Unambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID The reproducibility crisis…
Read MoreStudies Unable to Reproduce Results of Two Diabetes Papers
August 16, 2018Two examples from Diabetes research of non-reproducible studies. A commentary on The Scientist published on August 10th, 2018. There will always…
Read MoreFAIR and ALCOAplus – data management principles
August 13, 2018Data recording practices play a central element in research and can vary largely from lab to lab and researcher to researcher….
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