By: Christoph Emmerich
Newsletter December 2019
December 18, 2019News – New publication: Be positive about negatives – Read more – EQIPD Stakeholder Group Meeting…
Read MoreThoughts on How Institutions Can Promote a Culture of Research Integrity
November 22, 2019By Dr. Michael Lauer (NIH) Link to web page
Read MoreOff-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials
November 22, 2019Use of high-quality tools is an essential element of Good Research Practice. Like for many other aspects, “high quality” is a…
Read MoreToward Good In Vitro Reporting Standards
November 22, 2019Many areas of biomedical science have developed reporting standards and checklists to support the adequate reporting of scientific efforts, but in…
Read MoreReproducible and Transparent Research Practices in Published Neurology Research
November 22, 2019The objective of this study by Rauh et al. was to evaluate the nature and extent of reproducible and transparent research…
Read MoreFour erroneous beliefs thwarting more trustworthy research
November 22, 2019A range of problems currently undermines public trust in biomedical research. In this article, Mark Yarborough and colleagues discuss four erroneous…
Read MoreLaboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses
November 22, 2019Mice can be a valuable model for early biomedical research, but many of the drugs that demonstrate promising results in these…
Read MorePresentation of the newly developed Guidelines On Target Validation for Innovative Therapeutics (GOT-IT)
November 22, 2019Representing the GOT-IT Team, Christoph Emmerich presented the GOT-IT Guidelines at the “BMBF Vernetzungstreffen zur Nationalen Wirkstoffinitiative” on the 8th of October…
Read MoreLicense to Kill – From Killer Experiments and Synthetic Lethality
August 12, 2019The Maternal Embryonic Leucine zipper Kinase (MELK) is an interesting enzyme:In 2005, MELK was first implicated in cancer by finding elevated…
Read MoreAccurate design of in vitro experiments – why does it matter?
August 24, 2016Good statistical design is a key aspect of meaningful research. Elements such as data robustness, randomization and blinding are widely recognized…
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