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A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.

WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.

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Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

Relation of work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict with the employee performance-moderating role of job satisfaction

Aqeel Ahmed Soomro, Robert J. Breitenecker, Syed Afzal Shah · 2018 · South Asian Journal of Business Studies

Purpose People in both the developing and developed worlds now face issues like work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between work-life balance, work-family…

View details →DOI: 10.1108/sajbs-02-2017-0018Cited by 289
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells in Macular Degeneration

Manjit Mehat, Venki Sundaram, Caterina Ripamonti et al. · 2018 · Ophthalmology

PURPOSE: Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells offers the potential for benefit in macular degeneration. Previous trials have reported improved visual acuity (VA), but lacked detailed analysis of retinal structure and function in the treated area. DESIGN: Phase 1/2 open-label dose-escalation trial to evaluate safety and potential efficacy (clinicaltrials.gov identifier, NCT01469832). PARTICIPANTS: Twelve participants with advanced Stargardt disease (STGD1), the most common cause of macular degeneration in children and young adults. M

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2018.04.037Cited by 288
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping

Jan Gläscher, David Rudrauf, Roberto Colom et al. · 2010 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

General intelligence (g) captures the performance variance shared across cognitive tasks and correlates with real-world success. Yet it remains debated whether g reflects the combined performance of brain systems involved in these tasks or…

View details →DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910397107Cited by 288
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

STAT3 antisense oligonucleotide AZD9150 in a subset of patients with heavily pretreated lymphoma: results of a phase 1b trial

Matthew J. Reilley, Patricia McCoon, Carl Cook et al. · 2018 · Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

BACKGROUND: The Janus kinase (JAK) and signal transduction and activation of transcription (STAT) signaling pathway is an attractive target in multiple cancers. Activation of the JAK-STAT pathway is important in both tumorigenesis and activation of immune responses. In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the transcription factor STAT3 has been associated with aggressive disease phenotype and worse overall survival. While multiple therapies inhibit upstream signaling, there has been limited success in selectively targeting STAT3 in patients. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) represent a comp

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s40425-018-0436-5Cited by 288
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

The effect of intravenous interleukin-1 receptor antagonist on inflammatory mediators in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid haemorrhage: a phase II randomised controlled trial

Navneet Singh, Stephen J. Hopkins, Sharon Hulme et al. · 2014 · Journal of Neuroinflammation

BACKGROUND: Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a key mediator of ischaemic brain injury induced by stroke and subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) limits brain injury in experimental stroke and reduces plasma inflammatory mediators associated with poor outcome in ischaemic stroke patients. Intravenous (IV) IL-1Ra crosses the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in patients with SAH, to achieve cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations that are neuroprotective in rats. METHODS: A small phase II, double-blind, randomised controlled study was carried out across two UK neurosurgical centres

View details →DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-11-1Cited by 288
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Barriers to participation in physical activity and exercise among middle-aged and elderly individuals

Maria Justine, Azliyana Azizan, Vally Hassan et al. · 2013 · Singapore Medical Journal

INTRODUCTION Although the benefits of physical activity and exercise are widely acknowledged, many middle-aged and elderly individuals remain sedentary. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify the external and internal barriers to…

View details →DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2013203Cited by 288
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Testing theories of post-error slowing

Gilles Dutilh, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Birte U. Forstmann et al. · 2011 · Attention Perception & Psychophysics

People tend to slow down after they make an error. This phenomenon, generally referred to as post-error slowing, has been hypothesized to reflect perceptual distraction, time wasted on irrelevant processes, an a priori bias against the…

View details →DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0243-2Cited by 287
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

The TIPS‐Treasury Bond Puzzle

Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. Longstaff, Hanno Lustig · 2013 · The Journal of Finance

ABSTRACT We show that the price of a Treasury bond and an inflation‐swapped Treasury Inflation‐Protected Securities (TIPS) issue exactly replicating the cash flows of the Treasury bond can differ by more than $20 per $100 notional.…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12032Cited by 287
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Big Five personality stability, change, and codevelopment across adolescence and early adulthood.

Jeroen Borghuis, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Daniel L. Oberski et al. · 2017 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Using data from 2 large and overlapping cohorts of Dutch adolescents, containing up to 7 waves of longitudinal data each (N = 2,230), the present study examined Big Five personality trait stability, change, and codevelopment in friendship…

View details →DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000138Cited by 286
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

COX-2 inhibition improves immunotherapy and is associated with decreased numbers of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in mesothelioma. Celecoxib influences MDSC function

Joris D. Veltman, Margaretha Lambers, Menno van Nimwegen et al. · 2010 · BMC Cancer

BACKGROUND: Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are a heterogeneous population of immature cells that accumulates in tumour-bearing hosts. These cells are induced by tumour-derived factors (e.g. prostaglandins) and have a critical role in immune suppression. MDSC suppress T and NK cell function via increased expression of arginase I and production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO). Immune suppression by MDSC was found to be one of the main factors for immunotherapy insufficiency. Here we investigate if the in vivo immunoregulatory function of MDSC can be reversed by in

View details →DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-464Cited by 285
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

The Hipparcos–Gaia Catalog of Accelerations: Gaia EDR3 Edition

Timothy D. Brandt · 2021 · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Abstract We present a cross-calibration of Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3 intended to identify astrometrically accelerating stars and to fit orbits to stars with faint, massive companions. The resulting catalog, the EDR3 edition of the…

View details →DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abf93cCited by 285
Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Subjective Well-Being Around the World: Trends and Predictors Across the Life Span

Andrew T. Jebb, Mike Morrison, Louis Tay et al. · 2020 · Psychological Science

Using representative cross-sections from 166 nations (more than 1.7 million respondents), we examined differences in three measures of subjective well-being over the life span. Globally, and in the individual regions of the world, we found…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/0956797619898826Cited by 285
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study

Gabriella Andreotti, Stella Koutros, Jonathan N Hofmann et al. · 2017 · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Background: Glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide worldwide, with both residential and agricultural uses. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans," noting…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djx233Cited by 285
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Non-specific effects of standard measles vaccine at 4.5 and 9 months of age on childhood mortality: randomised controlled trial

Peter Aaby, Cesário Martins, M.‐L. Garly et al. · 2010 · BMJ

OBJECTIVE: To examine in a randomised trial whether a 25% difference in mortality exists between 4.5 months and 3 years of age for children given two standard doses of Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccines at 4.5 and 9 months of age compared…

View details →DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c6495Cited by 284
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Social disadvantage, genetic sensitivity, and children’s telomere length

Colter Mitchell, John Hobcraft, Sara McLanahan et al. · 2014 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Disadvantaged social environments are associated with adverse health outcomes. This has been attributed, in part, to chronic stress. Telomere length (TL) has been used as a biomarker of chronic stress: TL is shorter in adults in a variety…

View details →DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404293111Cited by 284
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence Across Countries and Bank Ownership Types

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç‐Kunt, María Soledad Martínez Pería · 2010 · Journal of Financial Services Research

Using data for 91 large banks from 45 countries, this paper finds that foreign, domestic private, and government-owned banks use different lending technologies and organizational structures for SME financing. The extent, type, and pricing…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10693-010-0085-4Cited by 284
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Cerebrovascular disease is associated with an increased disease severity in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A pooled analysis of published literature

Gaurav Aggarwal, Giuseppe Lippi, Brandon Michael Henry · 2020 · International Journal of Stroke

INTRODUCTION: There is an urgent need to identify patients at high risk during the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Whether a history of stroke is associated with increased severity of disease or mortality is unknown.…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/1747493020921664Cited by 284
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

AKI and Collapsing Glomerulopathy Associated with COVID-19 and APOL 1 High-Risk Genotype

Huijuan Wu, Christopher P. Larsen, Cesar F. Hernandez-Arroyo et al. · 2020 · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Significance Statement Kidney involvement may occur in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and can be severe among Black individuals. In this study of collapsing glomerulopathy in six Black patients with COVID-19, the authors found that…

View details →DOI: 10.1681/asn.2020050558Cited by 284
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

SPITZERSECONDARY ECLIPSES OF THE DENSE, MODESTLY-IRRADIATED, GIANT EXOPLANET HAT-P-$20{\rm b}$ USING PIXEL-LEVEL DECORRELATION

Drake Deming, Heather A. Knutson, Joshua A. Kammer et al. · 2015 · The Astrophysical Journal

HAT-P-20b is a giant metal-rich exoplanet orbiting a metal-rich star. We analyze two secondary eclipses of the planet in each of the 3.6 and 4.5 m bands of Warm Spitzer. We have developed a simple, powerful, and radically different method…

View details →DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/805/2/132Cited by 283
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Colonic microbiota is associated with inflammation and host epigenomic alterations in inflammatory bowel disease

Feargal J. Ryan, Anna M. Ahern, Rachel S. Fitzgerald et al. · 2020 · Nature Communications

Studies of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been inconclusive in relating microbiota with distribution of inflammation. We report microbiota, host transcriptomics, epigenomics and genetics from matched inflamed and non-inflamed colonic mucosa [50 Crohn's disease (CD); 80 ulcerative colitis (UC); 31 controls]. Changes in community-wide and within-patient microbiota are linked with inflammation, but we find no evidence for a distinct microbial diagnostic signature, probably due to heterogeneous host-microbe interactions, and show only marginal microbiota associations with habitual diet. Epi

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15342-5Cited by 283
Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Influence of Age, Sex, and Race on College Students’ Exercise Motivation of Physical Activity

Trevor J. Egli, Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton et al. · 2011 · Journal of American College Health

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined differences in exercise motivation between age, sex, and race for college students. PARTICIPANTS: Students from 156 sections of physical activity classes at a midsize university were recruited (n = 2,199;…

View details →DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2010.513074Cited by 283
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

The Evidence in Support of Physicians and Health Care Providers as Physical Activity Role Models

Felipe Lobelo, Isabel Garcia de Quevedo · 2014 · American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Physical inactivity constitutes the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Health care providers (HCPs) should play a key role in counseling and appropriately referring their patients to adopt physical activity (PA). Previous reports…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/1559827613520120Cited by 283
Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

Lights, Camera … Income! Illuminating the National Accounts-Household Surveys Debate *

Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martín · 2016 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Abstract GDP per capita and household survey means present conflicting pictures of the rate of economic development in emerging countries. One of the areas in which the national accounts–household surveys debate is key is the measurement…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjw003Cited by 283
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Genome-wide analysis of 53,400 people with irritable bowel syndrome highlights shared genetic pathways with mood and anxiety disorders

Chris Eijsbouts, Tenghao Zheng, Nicholas A. Kennedy et al. · 2021 · Nature Genetics

Abstract Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) results from disordered brain–gut interactions. Identifying susceptibility genes could highlight the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. We designed a digestive health questionnaire for UK Biobank and combined identified cases with IBS with independent cohorts. We conducted a genome-wide association study with 53,400 cases and 433,201 controls and replicated significant associations in a 23andMe panel (205,252 cases and 1,384,055 controls). Our study identified and confirmed six genetic susceptibility loci for IBS. Implicated genes included NCAM1 ,

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00950-8Cited by 282
Failed Experiment ReportNeuroscience

Gene delivery of neurturin to putamen and substantia nigra in Parkinson disease: A double‐blind, randomized, controlled trial

C. Warren Olanow, Raymond T. Bartus, Tiffany Baumann et al. · 2015 · Annals of Neurology

OBJECTIVE: A 12-month double-blind sham-surgery-controlled trial assessing adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2)-neurturin injected into the putamen bilaterally failed to meet its primary endpoint, but showed positive results for the…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/ana.24436Cited by 282
Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Comparison of two cone beam computed tomographic systems versus panoramic imaging for localization of impacted maxillary canines and detection of root resorption

Ali Alqerban, Reinhilde Jacobs, Steffen Fieuws et al. · 2011 · European Journal of Orthodontics

The diagnostic accuracy for the localization of impacted canines and the detection of canine-induced root resorption of maxillary incisors were compared between conventional radiographic procedures using one two-dimensional (2D) panoramic…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/ejo/cjq034Cited by 282
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation

James Druckman, ERIK PETERSON, RUNE SLOTHUUS · 2013 · American Political Science Review

Competition is a defining element of democracy. One of the most noteworthy events over the last quarter-century in U.S. politics is the change in the nature of elite party competition: The parties have become increasingly polarized.…

View details →DOI: 10.1017/s0003055412000500Cited by 282
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Cellular-Resolution Population Imaging Reveals Robust Sparse Coding in the Drosophila Mushroom Body

Kyle S. Honegger, Robert A. A. Campbell, Glenn Turner · 2011 · Journal of Neuroscience

Sensory stimuli are represented in the brain by the activity of populations of neurons. In most biological systems, studying population coding is challenging since only a tiny proportion of cells can be recorded simultaneously. Here we…

View details →DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1099-11.2011Cited by 281
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Matrix-Applied Characterized Autologous Cultured Chondrocytes Versus Microfracture: Five-Year Follow-up of a Prospective Randomized Trial

Mats Brittberg, David P. Recker, John Ilgenfritz et al. · 2018 · The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Background: Matrix-based cell therapy improves surgical handling, increases patient comfort, and allows for expanded indications with better reliability within the knee joint. Five-year efficacy and safety of autologous cultured…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/0363546518756976Cited by 281
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Meta‐analysis supports further refinement of eDNA for monitoring aquatic species‐specific abundance in nature

Matthew C. Yates, Dylan J. Fraser, Alison M. Derry · 2019 · Environmental DNA

Abstract The use of eDNA to detect the presence/absence of rare or invasive species is well documented and its use in biodiversity monitoring is expanding. Preliminary laboratory research has also shown a positive correlation between the concentration of species‐specific eDNA particles and the density/biomass of a species in a given environment. However, the extent to which these results can be extended to natural environments has yet to be formally quantified. We collated data from experiments that examined the correlation between eDNA and two metrics of abundance (biomass and density) and, u

View details →DOI: 10.1002/edn3.7Cited by 281