By: Björn

Never waste a good crisis: Confronting Reproducibility in Translational Research.
September 19, 2016

„Never waste a good crisis: Confronting Reproducibility in Translational Research“ by Daniel Drucker was published in Cell Metabolism and picks up…

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Reproducibility: Respect your cells!
September 15, 2016

Working with cell cultures seems to be pretty easy -at least most times- and is done routinely in many in vitro…

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Evaluation of recombinant monoclonal antibody SVmab1 binding to NaV1.7 target sequences and block of human NaV1.7 currents
September 12, 2016

The Preclinical Reproducibility & Robustness (PRR) channel provides a venue for researchers to publish both confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies to help improve…

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Statement by Martin Michel
September 9, 2016

“In God we trust” is minted on each US coin. The evidence-based medicine movement has adapted this to “In God we…

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A proposal for validation of antibodies.
September 5, 2016

The International Working Group on Antibody Validation (IWGAV) is an independent group of international scientists with diverse research interests in the…

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A STAR Is Born
August 25, 2016

A STAR Is Born – Cell Press transforms the methods section of articles to improved transparency and accessibility. As one of the…

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Searching for significance
August 20, 2016

To examine associations between urinary chemical concentrations and adult health status, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measured…

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Retraction notice:
August 17, 2016

‘…There was no response from the authors despite our attempts to reach them and request to clarify these discrepancies. More importantly,…

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Mouse microbes may make scientific studies harder to replicate.
August 16, 2016

“Microbiome” is a term used to refer to gut bacteria but also to other inhabitants of the gut, like viruses, fungi,…

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From a mouse: systematic analysis reveals limitations of experiments testing interventions in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models.
August 10, 2016

Systematic review and meta-analysis are powerful tools to assess the validity and robustness of data published in a certain research field….

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