“Best Practices” for seed handling
At The Pub Club this week Gregg Howe shared a recent issue with Columbia-0 seeds sold by Lehle seed company being contaminated with other accessions. Here is an excerpt from the […]
At The Pub Club this week Gregg Howe shared a recent issue with Columbia-0 seeds sold by Lehle seed company being contaminated with other accessions. Here is an excerpt from the […]
Problems with experimental reproducibility have been of concern in the scientific community of late, which has been attributed as least in part to our misuse of p-values. Misconceptions of the […]
A recent news feature in Nature (Welcome to the CRISPR zoo) highlights the myriad of ongoing applications for CRISPR technology: from controlling disease in engineered bee populations to CRISPi chickens […]
Sheng Yang regularly sends the He lab “papers of interest” (now shared on The Pub Club Scoop.it page) as well as interesting “science in the news” stories. Last December he […]
Very interesting comment in Nature this week highlighting the story of XA21-mediated immunity in rice (Rice researchers redress retraction), which was initially published in Science in 2009, retracted in 2013, […]
The alarming explosion of genome sequencing data was recently addressed in PLoS Biology (Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical), and touched on in Nature News (Genome researchers raise alarm over big […]
Excerpt: “Although the Council recognised that there were already a number of important initiatives that were promoting rigour and integrity within the research community, it suspected that aspects of the […]