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Make the first project of every cancer biology doctoral student a funded, pre-registered attempt to repeat a published finding chosen from a curated list of translationally relevant results, with the outcome published in a replication registry. Students learn power analysis, blinding and reporting, and the field gets thousands of replications a year.
First-year doctoral students need training projects with clear methods and a defined endpoint; replications provide exactly that, while teaching pre-registration, power analysis, blinding and reporting. Programmes that have tried this (in psychology) report strong educational outcomes. A cancer biology version, with findings chosen from a curated list of translationally important results and outcomes published in a replication registry, would create a steady replication workforce at marginal cost.
Shares A replication status badge on every cancer paper, visible in PubMed, Funders set aside a fixed share of budget for independent replication, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Funders set aside a fixed share of budget for independent replication, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares A replication status badge on every cancer paper, visible in PubMed, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Funders set aside a fixed share of budget for independent replication, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico.
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico.
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico.
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Drug discovery roadmap: screening in mice → maps of dependency → designing in silico.