“The difference in F. nucleatum expression between [colorectal carcinoma] and adjacent normal tissues was thus smaller than the original study, and not detected in most samples,” the authors of the ...

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Replication is something of a litmus test for scientific truth, and cancer biologists at the Center for Open Science wanted to see just how many of cancer’s most influential experiments stood up to it ...

Social science, including behavioral economics, has recently come under fire as failing to generate studies with reproducible results. The Reproducibility Project made waves in August of 2015 when it ...

Yet according to these criteria, none of the six studies already completed by the Reproducibility Project (the last of which was published this week in eLife) showed the same results previously ...

Scientists and drug developers are always looking for new ways to hit cancer where it hurts. Recently, they’ve been focusing on metabolic pathways—how cancer cells hijack cells to support their own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last August, I wrote about a large initiative called the Reproducibility Project, led by Brian Nosek from the University of ...

The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was a crowdsourced collaboration of 270 contributing authors to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies. This project was led ...

Recent years have seen perceptions of a “reproducibility crisis” grow in various disciplines. Scientists see poor levels of research reproducibility as a severe threat to scientific self-correction, ...