In recent years, there’s been increasing awareness of a problem across many scientific fields—the problem of reproducibility. Can experiments be repeated (or “reproduced”) to arrive at the same result ...

The scientific literature is full of articles discussing poor reproducibility of findings from animal experiments as well as failures to translate results from preclinical animal studies to clinical ...

Many scientists are struggling to reproduce previously established findings, raising questions surrounding the funding and foundations of science, according to Nicole Nelson, an associate professor in ...

In the course of the so-called reproducibility crisis, various sources of poor reproducibility of animal research have been identified, including a lack of scientific rigor, low statistical power, ...

According to a study published today (February 22) in PLOS Biology, the current design of some preclinical studies may be undermining their reproducibility. Including just a few additional ...

British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 63-69 (7 pages) The reproducibility of pulmonary function tests in the laboratory and in a mobile field survey vehicle has been ...

In measuring the quality of experiments, repeatability and reproducibility are key. In this article, we explore the differences between the two terms, and why they are important in determining the ...

The importance of antibodies as tools in scientific research studies cannot be understated, yet these reagents have increasingly come under fire for their lack of reproducibility. Part of the issue is ...

The ability to reproduce another researcher’s work is a cornerstone of science, and yet in many cases scientists do not have access to the data or methods used by others to be able to validate and ...