“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 […]
Misuse of p-values
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 […]
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The CRISPR zoo and gene drive
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 […]
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The Ethics of Genome Editing: An RCR Discussion Topic
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 […]
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Redemption after retraction: XA21-mediated immunity
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, […]
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Big genomics data raising alarms
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 […]
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The culture of scientific research
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 […]
