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

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

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

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

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

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