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The EQIPD Framework
September 6, 2022The EQIPD framework for rigor in the design, conduct, analysis, and documentation of animal experiments was published today. It defines the demands for…
Read MoreAdditional reads in June 2022
June 16, 2022European Journal of Behavior Analysis: women, men, and authorship Are there any good experiments that should not be done? ‘Robot scientist’…
Read MoreConsiderations for implementing electronic laboratory notebooks in an academic research environment
June 16, 2022Stuart Higgins and colleagues describe in this review article the use of electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) from different perspectives. First, they…
Read MoreMany researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement: mixed-methods stud
June 16, 2022In this article, the authors analysed researchers’ compliance with their Data Availability Statement (DAS) from manuscripts published in open access journals…
Read MoreBlind spots on western blots: a meta-research study highlighting opportunities to improve figures and methods reporting
June 16, 2022Western blotting is a standard laboratory method used to detect proteins and assess their expression levels. Unfortunately, poor western blot image…
Read MoreDo multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?
June 16, 2022In light of the reproducibility crisis, there is a growing awareness that the rigorous standardization of experimental conditions may contribute to…
Read MoreTesting the reproducibility and robustness of the cancer biology literature by robot
June 16, 2022Scientific results should be reproducible and robust. However, when reproducibility is tested, it is often not found (often termed ’reproducibility crisis’),…
Read MoreWhat has preclinical systematic review ever done for us?
June 16, 2022Systematic reviews and meta-analyses deliver a crystallized understanding of the existing research data in any given space. However, grappling with the…
Read MoreReanalysis: the forgotten sibling of reproducibility and replicability
June 16, 2022Ensuring reproducibility and replicability has been an issue in many scientific disciplines in the past decade. In this commentary, Matthew Faria…
Read MorePreregistration of animal research protocols: development and 3-year overview of preclinicaltrials.eu
June 16, 2022Although commonly acknowledged and applied in clinical research since 2000, preregistration of animal studies is not yet the norm. In 2018…
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