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Editorial
. 2021 Dec 7:10:e75830.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.75830.

What have we learned?

Peter Rodgers  1 , Andy Collings  1
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Editorial

What have we learned?

Peter Rodgers et al. Elife. .

Abstract

As the final outputs of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology are published, it is clear that preclinical research in cancer biology is not as reproducible as it should be.

Keywords: Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology; cancer biology; meta-analysis; open science; replication; reporting standards; reproducibility.

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Conflict of interest statement

PR, AC No competing interests declared

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