Oncology & Cancer
A new gold standard for detecting cancer mutations
An international research collaboration has identified a new gold standard for detecting cancer mutations using genomic pathology.
Sep 10, 2021
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News tagged with reproducibility
Psychology & Psychiatry
When it comes to replicating studies, context matters
Contextual factors, such as the race of participants in an experiment or the geography of where the experiment was run, can reduce the likelihood of replicating psychological studies, a team of New York University researchers ...
May 23, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Massive study reports challenges in reproducing published psychology findings
A study that sought to replicate 100 findings published in three prominent psychology journals has found that, across multiple criteria, independent researchers could replicate less than half of the original findings. In ...
Aug 27, 2015
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Health informatics
Can ChatGPT diagnose your condition? Not yet, say researchers
ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has been increasingly used in health care contexts, one of which is assisting patients in self-diagnosing before seeking medical help.
Oct 16, 2023
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Medical research
Study shows the need to improve how scientists approach early-stage cancer research
Preclinical studies, the kind that scientists perform before testing in humans, don't get as much attention as their clinical counterparts. But they are the vital first steps to eventual treatments and cures. It's important ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Neuroscience
Transcranial ultrasound used in mice with Alzheimer's disease features
In December 2021 scientists from South Korea used a technology called transcranial ultrasound stimulation to excite specific areas of mice brain. They found mice with features of Alzheimer's had reduced levels of the hallmark ...
Jan 25, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research
The neuroimaging community has made significant strides toward collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which, until the past decade, had seemed out of reach. Between initiatives focused on the aggregation and open sharing ...
Jul 2, 2019
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Medical research
Researchers find widely 'inconsistent' use of antibodies in lab experiments
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Center say they have affirmed widespread inconsistencies in the use of a common laboratory procedure called immunohistochemical staining, and say the variations are making many laboratory ...
May 15, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Harmonization of resting-state functional MRI data across multiple imaging sites
It has become increasingly apparent that the low reproducibility of results is a ubiquitous problem across many scientific fields such as biomedical science and psychology. This problem is particularly serious in biomedical ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research addresses replicability problem in psychological science
A Victoria University of Wellington researcher has led part of a just-published major international study that replicates 28 classic and contemporary psychology experiments to test their accuracy.
Nov 20, 2018
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