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...."

Link:

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-launches-initiative-double-check-biomedical-studies

Updated:

12/26/2024, 04:12

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oa.new oa.reproducibility oa.funders oa.funding oa.medicine oa.biology oa.nih oa.usa oa.biomedicine oa.usa.nih oa.negative oa.access

Date tagged:

12/27/2024, 01:30

Date published:

12/25/2024, 04:12