The scientific community has been struggling with the problem of data reproducibility—a key step in the process that guides how most scientists create knowledge in their field. According to a recent ...

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 ...

Science is an inherently social enterprise. Progress only occurs when new results are communicated to and accepted by the relevant scientific communities. The major lines of communication run through ...

A reproducibility crisis is ongoing in scientific research, where many studies may be difficult or impossible to replicate and thereby validate, especially when the study involves a very large sample ...

CRISPR’s use has vast potential in basic research to add to the understanding of cellular activity and in healthcare for precision therapies for today’s untreatable diseases. To date, some 30 clinical ...

Data sharing and information on data accessibility is instrumental for transparent scientific reporting, and the discoverability, validation and reuse of datasets with correct attribution and citation ...

The contamination of cell lines by other cell lines or by microbes is a plague on the biomedical research community. 1 Cell-line misidentification was first acknowledged nearly half a century ago upon ...

Regarding Peter Wood and David Randall’s “How Bad is the Government’s Science?” (op-ed, April 17 and Letters, May 1): It has been my experience that the major issue with reproducibility of results in ...

An initiative that aims to validate the findings of key cancer papers is being slowed by an unexpected hurdle — problems accessing data from the original studies. For one paper, securing the necessary ...