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Encouraging Progress toward Reproducibility Reported

At AAAS 2017, a pair of panel discussions addressed the reproducibility crisis in science, particularly biomedical science, and suggested...

Times Higher Education

New guidelines to police ‘Wild West’ of antibody research

Validating antibodies used in experiments could ‘free up billions of research dollars’, head of standards institute says More than 100...

Nature

Biologists plan scoring system for antibodies Manufacturers and users will rank reagents to improve

Biomedical experts plan to create a scoring system that will help researchers choose reliable antibodies for their experiments. The only...

Science Magazine

Validate your antibodies to improve reproducibility? Easier said than done

It seems like the most elementary of research principles: Make sure the cells and reagents in your experiment are what they claim to be...

NPR

Scientists Often Skip A Simple Test That Could Verify Their Work

Congratulations GBSI on a successful BioPolicy Summit! By Richard Harris, NPR One study found that between 18 percent and 36 percent of...

WSJ

ALS institute highlights irreproducible results, a major problem in science

by Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe Leonard Freedman, chief executive of the nonprofit Global Biological Standards Institute, which...

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