In the fall of 2013, the emails arrived in scientists from dozens of inboxes informing that their work had been selected for the examination of a project to replicate 50 high-impact papers cancer biology. The project Reproducibility: cancer biology, an open ambitious scientific effort to check whether the key results in the best journals can be replicated by independent laboratories, has raised concerns in the community. Almost all scientists targeted by the project who spoke with Science agrees that cancer biology studies, as in many other areas, too often turn be irreproducible. But few feel comfortable with this particular effort, which plans to announce its conclusions in the coming months. The leaders of the project say it will ultimately benefit the field by measuring the magnitude of the problem of reproducibility in cancer biology.
To read the full article, see the June issue 26 Science .
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