Cancer research: Open ambition

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

A Challenge, an Ambition

t h g e p w U m w a w m Portuguese gastroenterology, either at national and international levels, and will stand as an element of prestige for all of us. This is a short term goal within our reach. Portuguese gastroenterologists will surely rise up for the challenge. As Director of the GE Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology I wish, first of all, to assume that I consider this challenge a gre...

Do women lack ambition?

For men, ambition is considered a necessary and desirable part of life. Most women, however, associate ambition with egotism, self-aggrandizement, or manipulation. Getting to the bottom of why this is so required study of what ambition consists of--for both sexes. In childhood, the research uncovered, girls are clear about their ambitions. Their goals are grand, and they make no apologies for t...

Open Archiving for Open Research

It is a foregone conclusion that all refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that one can access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to...

An open investigation of the reproducibility of cancer biology research

It is widely believed that research that builds upon previously published findings has reproduced the original work. However, it is rare for researchers to perform or publish direct replications of existing results. The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology is an open investigation of reproducibility in preclinical cancer biology research. We have identified 50 high impact cancer biology arti...