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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…
Read MoreReproducibility: Respect your cells!
September 15, 2016Working with cell cultures seems to be pretty easy -at least most times- and is done routinely in many in vitro…
Read MoreEvaluation of recombinant monoclonal antibody SVmab1 binding to NaV1.7 target sequences and block of human NaV1.7 currents
September 12, 2016The Preclinical Reproducibility & Robustness (PRR) channel provides a venue for researchers to publish both confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies to help improve…
Read MoreStatement 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…
Read MoreA proposal for validation of antibodies.
September 5, 2016The International Working Group on Antibody Validation (IWGAV) is an independent group of international scientists with diverse research interests in the…
Read MoreA STAR Is Born
August 25, 2016A STAR Is Born – Cell Press transforms the methods section of articles to improved transparency and accessibility. As one of the…
Read MoreSearching for significance
August 20, 2016To examine associations between urinary chemical concentrations and adult health status, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measured…
Read MoreRetraction 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,…
Read MoreMouse 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,…
Read MoreFrom a mouse: systematic analysis reveals limitations of experiments testing interventions in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models.
August 10, 2016Systematic 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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