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Setting standards to promote progress in bio–nano science

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To the Editor — Standardized minimum information reporting is undeniably valuable. It helps editors, reviewers and readers to access scientific data and experimental details more easily and examine them more carefully. It furthermore aids reproducibility, quantitative comparisons, meta-analyses and modelling. In the bio–nano field, a key current question is whether standardized minimum information reporting can help to close the gap between the thousands of bio–nano papers that are published every year and the relatively small number of bio–nano products that have made it to the market.

To evaluate how leaders in the field see the MIRIBEL guidelines (minimum information reporting in bio–nano experimental literature), we contacted around 150 bio–nano experts, and we asked them whether introducing a minimum information reporting standard is valuable (1), necessary (2) and practicable (3); whether it facilitates reproducibility (4), quantitative comparisons (5) and meta-analyses and modelling (6); and whether it promotes scientific integrity (7), scientific progress (8) and clinical progress (9).

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  1. Department of Nanomedicine and Theranostics, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University Clinic, Aachen, Germany

    Twan Lammers

  2. Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Twan Lammers & Gert Storm

  3. Department of Targeted Therapeutics, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

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Lammers, T., Storm, G. Setting standards to promote progress in bio–nano science. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 626 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0497-8

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