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For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.
UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
From the oceans to the soil, technology is changing the part that amateurs can play in research. But this greater involvement raises concerns that must be addressed.
US judges dismiss injunctions against journals.
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The involvement of online discussion sites in the identification of errors, anomalies and worse in the published literature continues to demonstrate the usefulness of post-publication review. It also highlights the ambiguous power of anonymity.
The European Commission has abandoned consideration of 'Science 2.0', finding it too ambitious.
Results from a survey on perceptions of data sharing, discovery, and metrics.
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate.
Active problem-solving confers a deeper understanding of science than does a standard lecture. But some university lecturers are reluctant to change tack.
Massive study seeks to succeed where others failed, but faces tight deadline and questions about strategy.
Survey results released last week by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) included an interesting nugget. Some 72% of respondents said that they had been unable to replicate a published experimental result. Yet a higher proportion (77%) said that they had never been told that their work could not be replicated.
Better communication between labs may resolve many reproducibility problems, according to [28]report.
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
What can go wrong when governments use research to make a country look good.
Dynasty Foundation liquidated after Ministry of Justice labels it a 'foreign agent'.
Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.
Institutions must be plain about research metrics if academics are to engage with them.
The country's economic crisis is hitting researchers hard.
Mechanisms to help researchers to balance work and home lives have made a positive difference to the gender balance at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.
The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct.
When the Francis Crick Institute opens in London this year, it will be Europe’s largest biomedical research centre. Can director Paul Nurse make this gamble pay off for UK science?
