Reporting and misreporting of sex differences in the biological sciences. [PDF]
Elife, 2021 As part of an initiative to improve rigor and reproducibility in biomedical research, the U. S. National Institutes of Health now requires the consideration of sex as a biological variable in preclinical studies.
Garcia-Sifuentes Y, Maney DL.
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Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences. [PDF]
Nat Methods, 2021 Computing plays a critical role in the biological sciences but faces increasing challenges of scale and complexity. Quantum computing, a computational paradigm exploiting the unique properties of quantum mechanical analogs of classical bits, seeks to ...
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A 10-year follow-up study of sex inclusion in the biological sciences. [PDF]
Elife, 2020 In 2016, to address the historical overrepresentation of male subjects in biomedical research, the US National Institutes of Health implemented a policy requiring investigators to consider sex as a biological variable.
Woitowich NC, Beery A, Woodruff T.
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Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: The case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The success of a scientist depends on their production of scientific papers and the impact factor of the journal in which they publish. Because most major scientific journals are published in English, success is related to publishing in this language ...
Ramírez-Castañeda V.
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Controlling for body size leads to inferential biases in the biological sciences. [PDF]
Evol Lett, 2020 Many traits correlate with body size. Studies that seek to uncover the ecological factors that drive evolutionary responses in traits typically examine these responses relative to associated changes in body size using multiple regression analysis ...
Rogell B, Dowling DK, Husby A.
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, 2021 I provide two arguments against value-free naturalism. Both are based on considerations concerning biological teleology. Value-free naturalism is the thesis that both (1) everything is, at least in principle, under the purview of the sciences and (2) all
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The ex vivo pharmacology of HIV-1 antiretrovirals differs between macaques and humans
iScience, 2022 Summary: Non-human primates (NHP) are widely used for the pre-clinical assessment of antiretrovirals (ARVs) for HIV treatment and prevention. However, the utility of these models is questionable given the differences in ARV pharmacology between humans ...
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Circulating tumor cells: Towards mechanical phenotyping of metastasis
iScience, 2022 Summary: During cancer progression, metastatic dissemination accounts for ∼90% of death in patients. Metastasis occurs upon dissemination of circulating tumor cells (CTC) through body fluids, in particular the bloodstream, and several key steps remain ...
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Substrate Induced Denitrification over or under Estimates Shifts in Soil N2/N2O Ratios [PDF]
, 2014 Funding: Funding was provided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC UK (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk). Grant number BB/H013431/1.
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Referees for Volume 37, n. 1 of the Acta Scientiarium. Biological Sciences, 2015
Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2015 The Editorial Board of Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences would like to thank the referees listed below for their critical appreciation of articles submitted for Volume 37, n. 1 (2015).
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