Scientific reproducibility is hampered by a lack of specificity of the material resources
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
A key requirement when performing scientific experiments is the accessibility of material resources, including the reagents or model organisms, needed to address a specific hypothesis. The published scientific literature is a source of this valuable information, but frequently lacks sufficient detail to the extent that researchers are unable to identify material resources used to perform experiments.