reproducibility

Smart laboratory instruments are intuitively-designed ergonomic tools that support greater connectivity and productivity. 

Scientists use an automated liquid handling station to ensure consistency across a range of experiments.

Strategies to overcome common qPCR challenges

It’s not clear why grain-fed mice are better able to recover after infection, but a study’s findings suggest food type may skew the results of animal studies.

How to maintain cell culture conditions to eliminate the edge effect in multiwell plates.

Learn about common pipetting errors and how to avoid them for more repeatable experimental results.

Liquid handlers specialized for next-generation sequencing (NGS) automate nucleic acid extraction and library preparation from microbiome samples.

An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) keeps data organized and secure, boosting productivity and reproducibility.

Researchers involved in an eight-year project to reproduce the findings of more than 50 high-impact papers struggled to get enough information to even carry out most of the experiments.

Follow a few simple steps to produce publication-worthy western blots.

Several labs have reported the formation of bacterial nanotubes under different, often contrasting conditions. What are these structures and why are they so hard to reproduce?

Differences in how researchers prepare and image samples can lead to discrepancies in their results.

Malcolm Macleod, who helped develop these best practices, tells The Scientist how the new guidelines for manuscript publishing seek to support a push for transparent and thorough sharing of methods and data.

At a time of fast-paced science and rampant misinformation, can we trust the non–peer-reviewed literature?

The journal Ethology is the first to adopt the guidelines, aimed at clarifying experimental design and the potential biases within.

TRACKMAN® Connected is a tablet with accessories and apps that makes pipetting faster and more verifiable, which improves reliability, traceability, and reproducibility at the bench.  

When 70 independent teams were tasked with analyzing identical brain images, no two teams chose the same approach and their conclusions were highly variable.

Last month, 10 UK universities became part of the UK Reproducibility Network, joining researchers, funders, journal publishers, and regulatory agencies.

My lab has developed a protocol to easily assess the specificity of antibodies—and hopefully stem some of the reproducibility crisis.