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ARTICLE | Strategy

Repairing reproducibility

March 13, 2014 7:00 AM UTC

Although the NIH is taking preliminary steps to improve the reliability of preclinical data, many researchers are not waiting for reproducibility guidelines and are taking up the mantle to raise standards at their own institutions.

Francis Collins and Lawrence Tabak recently outlined a series of measures they are planning to implement at the NIH to combat poor reproducibility in preclinical research.1 The crux of the problem, they said, appears to be rooted in practices, policies and attitudes at academic centers, scientific publishers and funding agencies...