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The results of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology should give the biomedical research enterprise pause for thought.

New study reflects on shortcomings early in the scientific process

New study reflects on shortcomings early in the scientific process

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research. They recreated 50 experiments, and half the findings didn't add up.

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research. They recreated 50 experiments, the type of preliminary research with mice and test tubes that sets the stage for new cancer drugs. The results reported Tuesday: About half the scientific claims didnt hold up.

For cancer patients, it can raise false hopes to read headlines of a mouse study that seems to promise a cure “just around the corner,” Prasad said. “Progress in cancer is always slower than we hope.”

Eight years ago, researchers launched a project to carefully repeat influential lab experiments in cancer research. It turns out that about half of the scientific claims didn’t hold up.

"The truth is we fool ourselves."

The team repeated 50 experiments from cancer biology papers published from 2010 to 2012 in major journals.

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research.