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December 12, 2017

Lesson one: How to design a good experiment

It’s clear science has a reproducibility problem. What’s less clear is how to address it. Recently, the U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) $2.34 million to train students in good experimental design (also covered by The Scientist). The first week begins June 2018 at Harvard Medical School. We spoke […]
December 1, 2017

Weekend reads: Problems in studies of gender; when scholarship is a crime; a journal about Mark Zuckerberg photos

The week at Retraction Watch featured a call to make peer reviews public, lots of news about Cornell food researcher Brian Wansink, and a request by the U.S. NIH that the researchers it funds don’t publish in bad journals. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Leonard Freedman talks about how to teach young scientists about experimental design. (Katarina […]
December 1, 2017

Buyer Beware: Strategies for Navigating the Antibodies Market

Poorly characterized antibodies are producing false conclusions and uninterpretable results in laboratories all over the world. But there are steps laboratories can take to validate antibodies on their own, to produce stronger results, reduce waste, and save time
November 28, 2017

One Way to Fix Reproducibility Problems: Train Scientists Better

Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices. By Katarina Zimmer | The Scientist Link to the Q&A to hyperlink to the headline: https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51047/title/One-Way-to-Fix-Reproducibility-Problems–Train-Scientists-Better/
November 16, 2017

AUTOMATED FOR THE PEOPLE

GBSI MEETING HIGHLIGHTS AUTOMATION INNOVATION BY MICHAEL LEVITEN, SENIOR WRITER Last month, the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) held its annual meeting, this time with a focus on automation tools whose low cost could enable wider access by researchers for enhancing the reproducibility of preclinical research. “Affordable, accessible tools — robots, instruments, software, etc. — […]
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October 13, 2017

Bioz, Inc. to Present at GBSI BioPolicy Summit 2017

September 23, 2017

GBSI BioPolicy Summit 2017 Explores Technologies For Improved Preclinical Research Reproducibility – October 16

September 10, 2017

BenchSci: Reproducible Research: What the Experts Say About Antibody Validation

September 1, 2017

Never Break The Chain

August 22, 2017

The Great Reproducibility Problem

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