Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A long journey to reproducible results

  • Comment
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries, explain Gordon J. Lithgow, Monica Driscoll and Patrick Phillips.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Keaney, M. & Gems, D. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 34, 277–282 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Melov, S. et al. Science 289, 1567–1569 (2000).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Petrascheck, M., Ye, X. & Buck, L. B. Nature 450, 553–556 (2007).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Zarse, K. & Ristow, M. PLoS ONE 3, e4062 (2008).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Klionsky, D. J. Mol. Biol. Cell 27, 733–738 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Hines, W. C., Su, Y., Kuhn, I., Polyak, K. & Bissell, M. J. Cell Rep. 6, 779–781 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Barrows, N. J., Le Sommer, C., Garcia-Blanco, M. A. & Pearson, J. L. J. Biomol. Screen. 15, 735–747 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Harrison, D. E. et al. Nature 460, 392–395 (2009).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Lucanic, M. et al. Nature Commun. 8, 14256 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Cutter, A. D., Jovelin, R. & Dey, A. Mol. Ecol. 22, 2074–2095 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. a geneticist at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA

    Gordon J. Lithgow

  2. a developmental biologist at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

    Monica Driscoll

  3. an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Patrick Phillips

Authors
  1. Gordon J. Lithgow
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Monica Driscoll
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Patrick Phillips
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Gordon J. Lithgow.

Related links

Related links

Related links in Nature Research

Replication studies offer much more than technical details 2017-Jan-18

Chow down 2016-Feb-16

How quality control could save your science 2016-Jan-27

Challenges in irreproducible research

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Lithgow, G., Driscoll, M. & Phillips, P. A long journey to reproducible results. Nature 548, 387–388 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/548387a

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/548387a

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation