Various fields have struggled with poor reproducibility of studies. A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association explores how this issue is affecting the field of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 29 (Jul. 19, 2005), pp. 10233-10237 (5 pages) It is often argued that high mutation rates are ...

Many viruses, particularly RNA viruses, mutate at a very high rate per genome per replication. One possible explanation is that high mutation rates are selected to meet the challenge of fluctuating ...

Jennifer A. Surtees has long been dedicated to studying genome stability and boosting community involvement in research. With a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, she’ll get to do both.

Labs at UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Stanford and U of Virginia, discovered and replicated 16 novel findings in social-behavioral studies using the best available research practices. Roughly two ...

Both the emergence and subsequent human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV in 2002-2003, and of the highly virulent human coronavirus HCoV-EMC in the Middle East and Europe in 2012-2013 exemplifies CoV ...

Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the social-behavioral sciences, especially psychology. Several large scale studies ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were long regarded as harmful by-products of mitochondrial metabolism, but growing evidence—including our own—shows that ROS also signal to core processes such as ...