This post was contributed by David Mellor from the Center for Open Science. In the last decade, researchers have brought issues in reproducible research to the forefront in the so-called “reproducibility crisis.” Results in preclinical, biomedical and psychological sciences were ...
This post was contributed by Sreepadmanabh M, a member of the iGEM team from IISER Bhopal. Following up its 2018 iGEM debut - centered around a prototypical methane biosensor - IISER Bhopal is back in the SynBio arena this year with a fresh team of twenty excited undergrads. ...
This post was contributed by the Open Repository of CRISPR Screens. Imagine you’ve just discovered that your favorite gene was described in a CRISPR screen publication. You see this mentioned in the results section, but you had to dig through the supplemental files to see the ...
This post was contributed by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles with reproducibility at some point. Usually it comes up when a researcher decides on a new project and begins by trying to reproduce someone else’s ...
This post was contributed by Alessia Armezzani, scientific communication manager at genOway. A few decades ago, the brain remained elusive, not from a lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of scientists but, rather, from the limited technologies available. Over the past few ...
This post was contributed by Oskar Laur, head of the custom cloning core at Emory University, and Paolo Colombi, a product development scientist at Addgene. Cloning can be quite an arduous process. The PCR could fail to produce a product, the transformation may not result in any ...
This post was contributed by Brittany L. Uhlorn, a PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona. Perhaps you’re about to present your first scientific poster, but unsure how best to prepare. Maybe you’re a presentation veteran, but have difficulty answering questions. Or perhaps ...
This post was contributed by Jacob Lazarus, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. There’s an astounding number of ways to create chromosomal mutations in bacteria, so many that it may be difficult to decide which path to take. A quick and easy way to introduce a mutation in the ...
