In: Tools and Resources

Four simple ways to increase power without increasing the sample size
July 9, 2018

Underpowered experiments have three problems: true effects are harder to detect, the true effects that are detected tend to have inflated…

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Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies
July 9, 2018

Recommendations for the Design and Analysis of In Vivo Electrophysiology Studies The Journal of Neuroscience has recently released a series of…

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Newly developed ‘Harmonized animal research reporting principles’ (HARRP) published
July 9, 2018

The International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) has recently published Harmonized Animal Research Reporting Principles (HARRP), the first step of…

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New research platform Springer Nature Experiments
July 9, 2018

On 2018 July 25th, the SpringerProtocols.com platform will be deactivated and replaced by the new research platform Springer Nature Experiments, a…

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How to grow a healthy lab
June 6, 2018

A healthy research environment is fundamental to good science. However, this is an aspect that is rarely discussed. That’s partly because…

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What exactly is N in cell culture and animal experiments?
June 6, 2018

“Accurate Design of in vitro experiments – Why does it matter?” was the name of a previous post (LINK) from our…

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Improving Reproducibility in Research – a Healthcare Triage series
March 30, 2018

This episode is part of Healthcare Triage’s series on Improving Reproducibility in Research. The Introduction to the series can be found…

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All preclinical trials should be registered in advance in an online registry
February 27, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration Act of 2007 established requirements for the preregistration of clinical trials and also set penalties for…

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Abstract Sifter: a comprehensive front-end system to PubMed
February 27, 2018

In this article, Nancy Baker and colleagues introduce the Abstract Sifter, a Microsoft Excel based application that enhances existing search capabilities…

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Simple statistics
February 1, 2018

This website was published by Tom MacWright and contributers to provide a library of statistical methods in readible JavaScript. This detailed…

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