WOW esearchers Having Difficulty Reproducing Five Highly Influential Cancer Experiments.

reports a series of studies to be published Thursday reveals problems with “reproducibility” in the field of cancer biology. In particular, the “‘Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology,’ a collaboration of the Charlottesville, Va.-based Center for Open Science and the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Science Exchange, attempted to replicate five highly influential mouse experiments.” Three of the attempts “failed or were inconclusive. The other two found somewhat similar results, though with smaller effects.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/18/researchers-struggle-to-replicate-5-influential-cancer-experiments-from-top-labs/?utm_term=.e9e84eb4f57e