By: Björn
What does the Net Present Value have to do with preclinical drug discovery research?
May 5, 2017When looking for Investors in the Life Science sector, entrepreneurial scientists and start-up companies have to deal with an unavoidable questions:…
Read MoreReproducible and reusable research: are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark?
April 25, 2017This study by N. Vasilevsky et al. set out to analyze the pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the…
Read MoreNeed for a particularly rigorous planning of studies that are likely to raise a lot of attention when results are published
April 19, 2017After being published, research findings often become a subject of replication efforts. Such replication efforts may be especially important when the…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in April 2017
April 19, 2017How original are your scientific hypotheses really? (a german version can be found here) More than 3Rs: the importance of scientific validity for…
Read MoreOptimising reliability of mouse performance in behavioural testing: the major role of non-aversive handling
April 19, 2017Handling laboratory animals during test procedures is an important source of stress that may impair reliability of test responses. Picking up…
Read MoreEmpirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature
April 19, 2017In this paper, Denes Szucs and John P.A. Ioannidis have empirically assessed the distribution of published effect sizes and estimated power…
Read MoreResearch Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery
April 19, 2017The time-honored mechanism of allocating funds based on ranking of proposals by scientific peer review is no longer effective, because review…
Read MoreReplication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts
April 19, 2017Researchers agree that replicability and reproducibility are key aspects of science. Here, K. Andrew DeSoto and Martin Schweinsberg present datasets collected…
Read MoreMeta-assessment of bias in science
April 19, 2017Numerous biases are believed to affect the scientific literature, but their actual prevalence across disciplines is unknown. To gain a comprehensive…
Read MoreIncreasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs
April 19, 2017Despite the potential benefits of sequential designs, studies evaluating treatments or experimental manipulations in preclinical experimental biomedicine almost exclusively use classical…
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