IN THE NEWS: Science (July 31, 2018)

[From the article, “Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18” by Jocelyn Kaiser, published in Science magazine]
“An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.”
“‘I wish we could have done more,’ says biologist Tim Errington, who runs the project from the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia. But, he adds, ‘There is an element of not truly understanding how challenging it is until you do a project like this.'”
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