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Therapeutic Indication
August 17, 2017Perrin, S 2014. “Make Mouse Studies Work.” Nature 507:423. O’Collins, VE et al. 2011. “Preclinical Drug Evaluation for Combination Therapy in Acute Stroke…
Read MoreData quality tools
August 17, 2017Tools to improve data quality Benjamini, Y and Hochberg, Y 1995. “Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach…
Read MoreData Analysis and Statistics
August 17, 2017This collection of articles is all about data analysis and statistics. Gelman, A 2012. “Why We (Usually) Don’t Have to Worry…
Read MoreReproducibility and Date Robustness
August 17, 2017These articles are dealing with the Reproducibility and Robustness of Data Collins, FS and Tabak, LA 2014. “NIH plans to enhance…
Read MoreStudy Design
August 17, 2017These articles are presenting ideas on how to improve experiments. Howells, DW et al. 2014. “Bringing rigour to translational medicine.” Nature…
Read MoreConsequences of poor data quality
August 17, 2017These are a number of featured articles dealing with the consequences of poor data quality Pankevich, DE et al. 2014. “Improving…
Read MoreThe impact factor of an open access journal does not contribute to an article’s citations
June 19, 2017In this article, SK Chua et al. analyze the phenomenon that citations of papers are positively influenced by the journal’s impact…
Read MoreThe reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of P values
June 19, 2017Despite decades of warnings, many areas of science still insist on labelling a result of P < 0.05 as “significant”. In…
Read MoreThe ABCs of finding a good antibody: How to find a good antibody, validate it, and publish meaningful data
June 19, 2017Finding an antibody that works for a specific application can be a difficult task. Hundreds of vendors offer millions of antibodies,…
Read MoreA Guide for the Design of Pre-clinical Studies on Sex Differences in Metabolism
June 19, 2017In metabolic animal models, researchers often use male rodents because they show metabolic disease better than females. Thus, females are underrepresented…
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