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    1. Cancer Biology

    Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: What have we learned?

    Peter Rodgers, Andy Collings
    As the final outputs of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology are published, it is clear that preclinical research in cancer biology is not as reproducible as it should be.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: Challenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology

    Timothy M Errington, Alexandria Denis ... Brian A Nosek
    A project to repeat experiments from high-impact papers in cancer biology encountered a series of challenges, many of which were caused by a lack of detail in the original papers.
    1. Neuroscience

    Magnetic Resonance: Mapping the visual world to the human brain

    Betina Ip, Holly Bridge
    The visual maps measured non-invasively in the brain of human and non-human primates reliably reflect the underlying neuronal responses recorded with invasive electrodes.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Pain: Why sex matters

    Josette J Wlaschin, Sangeetha Hareendran, Claire E Le Pichon
    The immune mechanisms underlying hypersensitivity to pain after nerve injury are different in male and female mice.
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Circadian Rhythm: How neurons adjust to diurnality

    Gabriele Andreatta, Charles N Allen
    Being active during the day requires a slow-closing ion channel that dampens the activity of neurons in a specific area of the brain.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Science Forum: Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies

    Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi ... Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
    Using multiple analysts to independently analyze the same dataset has the potential to explore and strengthen the robustness of results and conclusions in basic and applied research.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Funding: Blinding peer review

    Michael A Taffe
    Concealing the identity of the principal investigator only partially closes the success gap between white and African American or Black researchers in NIH grant applications.
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    Vasopressin: Predicting changes in osmolality

    Zhe Yang, Tongtong Wang, Yuki Oka
    Two neural circuits control the release of vasopressin in response to eating and drinking before there are any detectable changes in blood water levels.
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Neonatal Weight: No fire without smoke (particles)

    Stephanie M Holm, John Balmes
    Pollution from landscape fires, which are increasing with climate change, leads to babies being born with lower birthweights in low- and middle-income countries.
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  1. Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?

    Luke D Lavis
    A group leader decided that his lab would share the fluorescent dyes they create, for free and without authorship requirements. Nearly 12,000 aliquots later, he reveals what has happened since.