More than a decade ago, Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis published a paper with astounding findings: of 53 “landmark” studies, only six, or 11%, were reproducible, even with the same reagents and the same protocols—and even, sometimes, in the same laboratory—as the original study.
After a year of lean appropriations, NCI is looking at what threatens to be a budgetary cataclysm—a potential 10-11% cut to the Labor-HHS spending bill in fiscal year 2025.
