In: Literature

Meta-Research: Incidences of problematic cell lines are lower in papers that use RRIDs to identify cell lines
March 11, 2019

Scientific articles using cell lines, which are registered on the International Cell Line Authentication Committee (ICLAC) or the Cellosaurus database as…

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Why we need to report more than ’Data were Analyzed by t-tests or ANOVA’
March 11, 2019

In this article,Weissgerber et al. present findings suggesting that scientific publications are often lacking sufficient information about the statistical methods used,…

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A Reaction Norm Perspective on Reproducibility
March 11, 2019

When studying living organisms, scientists are faced with inherent biological variation which is distinct from random noise or measurement error and…

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Visualization of Biomedical Data
March 11, 2019

The rapid increase in volume and complexity of biomedical data requires changes in research, communication, and clinical practices. This includes learning…

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Max Planck Society ends Elsevier subscription
January 2, 2019

The Max Planck Society (MPS) is a German research organisation acting in many different research areas and consists of over 14.000…

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Additional Reads in December 2018
December 20, 2018

Statistical pitfalls of personalized medicine How sure are you of your result? Put a number on it Design preclinical studies for…

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To Read More Papers, or to Read Papers Better? A Crucial Point for the Reproducibility Crisis 
December 20, 2018

To Read More Papers, or to Read Papers Better? A Crucial Point for the Reproducibility Crisis  A huge number of new…

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How to design preclinical studies in nanomedicine and cell therapy to maximize the prospects of clinical translation
December 20, 2018

Reproducibility in preclinical research may be low because of the high prevalence of biases and of suboptimal research practices (such as…

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Reproducible research practices, transparency, and open access data in the biomedical literature, 2015–2017
December 20, 2018

In this article, the authors analysed potential sources of bias in 149 randomly selected biomedical research papers published between 2015 and…

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Digital tools and services to support research replicability and verifiability
December 20, 2018

Digital tools hold promise for improving replicability and verifiability of scientific research. In this paper, the availability and use of such…

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