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Evidence-based clinical sciences are currently suffering from a paralyzing reproducibility crisis. From clinical psychiology to cancer biology, recent metaresearch indicates a rise in researchers failing to replicate studies published by their peers. This problem is not just limited to benchwork that happens in a lab; it also plagues translational research where the transformation from bench to bedside happens. Treatments, tests, and technologies are converted from simple lab experiments to government-approved devices and assays that affect hundreds of lives. Therefore, replicability is crucial to converting scientific breakthroughs into pragmatic remedies.
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© 2017 Vikram Dhillon, David Metcalf, and Max Hooper
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Dhillon, V., Metcalf, D., Hooper, M. (2017). Blockchain in Science. In: Blockchain Enabled Applications. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3081-7_8
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