NIH launches initiative to double check biomedical studies | Science | AAAS
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Summary:
"Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made an unusual offer to many of its 37,500 principal investigators: If you have a laboratory study you think could have a major impact on health—such as a mouse experiment testing a possible heart disease drug—we may pay for a contract lab to repeat the work to make sure it’s solid...
The initiative comes with a big caveat: The agency has no plans to make the resulting data public. That “limits the appeal and value,” says Tim Errington of the Center for Open Science (COS), a nonprofit that supports replication studies...."
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