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Coffee was wildly popular in Sweden in the 17th century--and also illegal. King Gustav III believed that it was a slow poison and devised a clever experiment to prove it.

Coffee was wildly popular in Sweden in the 17th century — and also illegal. King Gustav III believed that it was a slow poison and devised a clever experiment to prove it. He commuted the sentences of murderous twin brothers who were waiting to be beheaded, on one condition: One brother had to drink three pots of coffee every day while the other drank three pots of tea. The early death of the coffee drinker would prove that coffee was poison. It turned out that the coffee-drinking twin outlived the tea drinker, but it was not until the 1820s that Swedes

Preclinical studies are an important part of biomedical research, often guiding future trials in humans. Failure to replicate research results suggests a need to increase the quality of studies.

, R&D Cloud pioneer Benchling announced it has acquired Overwatch Research to accelerate in vivo research.

Eight years ago, a team of researchers launched a project to carefully repeat early and influential lab experiments in cancer research. The Reproducibility Project as it is called recreated 50 experiments.