More than 60% of cancer research cannot be repeated a second time

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analyzed more than 12,000 scientific papers on cellular

biology of breast cancer.After narrowing the set to 74 articles that were the most interesting and promising, the authors found that only less than a third—22 articles—could be replicated in the real world.

According to the authors, a successful experiment isone that can be replicated by a scientist from another laboratory under similar conditions. But more than 70% of the researchers tried and failed to reproduce the experiments of other scientists. More than half were unable to reproduce some of their own experiments. This is called the experimental replication crisis.

A few years ago, the robot scientist Eve appeared - this is a computer-robotic system with AI that conducts scientific experiments.

Machines are very important in scientific research because they record all the details of what is happening more accurately than humans.

Ross King, Professor at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering

King and his colleagues from the UK, USA andSweden has developed a project that uses a combination of artificial intelligence and robotics to help overcome the replicability crisis. The system analyzes scientific articles and tries to reproduce the experiments.

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