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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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Development and evaluation of a triplex real-time PCR assay for enhanced plague diagnostics in Madagascar.

Ramasindrazana B, Rahalison ZA, Gauthier P et al. · 2025 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Background The plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, remains a critical public health issue, particularly in endemic regions like Madagascar. Rapid and accurate detection of this pathogen is essential for effective outbreak management and…

View details →DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0013278
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Genetic counselling in the era of next generation sequencing.

Espada-Musitu D, Manero-Azua Á, Vado Y et al. · 2025 · Anales de pediatria

Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have made the detection of the molecular causes of paediatric diseases increasingly affordable, accessible and rapid. While exome sequencing and genome sequencing were until…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.anpede.2024.503712
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Baseline radiological parameters associated with good neurological outcome following ventriculoperitoneal shunt in normal pressure hydrocephalus: A single-center study on 82 patients.

Paracino R, De Domenico P, Ricciuti RA et al. · 2025 · Surgical neurology international

Background Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is a benign neurologic condition with treatment response rates ranging only between 30 and 50%. Several studies have attempted to identify clinical or radiological predictive…

View details →DOI: 10.25259/sni_975_2024
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Cancer genetic profile and risk of thrombosis.

Pelegrín-Mateo FJ, Zambrano CB, Vázquez EB et al. · 2025 · European journal of internal medicine

Cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among oncology patients, with an incidence influenced by tumor type, stage, treatment, and molecular characteristics. This review explores the molecular…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2025.04.004
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Intraoperative electrophysiological balloon test occlusion (BTO): A novel Solution to an inconclusive conventional BTO.

Datta A, Katyayan I, Das KK et al. · 2025 · Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

Parent Artery Occlusion (PAO) is a valid treatment choice in giant internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysms of the cavernous segment when the preoperative balloon test occlusion (BTO) demonstrates an adequate cross circulation from the…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2025.111044
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Missing values and inconclusive results in diagnostic studies - A scoping review of methods.

Stahlmann K, Reitsma JB, Zapf A · 2023 · Statistical methods in medical research

Most diagnostic studies exclude missing values and inconclusive results from the analysis or apply simple methods resulting in biased accuracy estimates. This may be due to the lack of availability or awareness of appropriate methods. This…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/09622802231192954
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Incidental Ovarian Uptake in Bone Scintigraphy.

Saber Tanha A, Hosseini S, Soltani E et al. · 2025 · Clinical nuclear medicine

Abstract A 47-year-old woman, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent staging. A whole-body bone scan revealed an unexpected focal 99m Tc-MDP uptake in her right ovary. Extensive literature review suggested various malignant…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/rlu.0000000000005606
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Diet predicts the conduct of animal testing, but inconclusive results on the role of personality, heart rate variability, and lab-animal objectification

Vezirian K, Beffara B, begue l · 2024 · Preprint

To develop pharmaceutical drugs, people experiment on lab-animals, and a wide variety of factors might predict the involvement into this situation. Using an ultra-realistic protocol mimicking animal research (n = 145), we examined…

View details →DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ft7xe
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A new multiplex molecular assay based on padlock probes and rolling circle amplification for MDR-TB detection in clinical specimens: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study.

Dudnyk A, Tytarenko N, Lytvyniuk O et al. · 2026 · Therapeutic advances in infectious disease

Background Patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) receive treatment that is at least 20% less effective than drug-susceptible cases globally. Objectives The study evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of mfloDx MDR-TB assay…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/20499361261436542
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Assessment of blood serum stability with Raman spectroscopy and explanatory AI.

Mieites V, Fernández-Manteca MG, Santiuste Torcida I et al. · 2025 · Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy

This study explores the potential of conventional Raman spectroscopy and commonly used spectral analysis pipelines for rapid and straightforward assessment of degradation in serum samples resulting from storage delays. Serum samples from…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2025.126297
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Variations in transcranial doppler among pediatric patients with sickle cell disease in the Brazilian Northeast: a cross-sectional study.

de Oliveira Castro Marques TR, Vidal SA, da Costa HA et al. · 2026 · Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy

Background Stroke, the most severe neurological complication of sickle cell disease, can result in irreversible sequelae and death. Transcranial Doppler combined with periodic blood transfusions reduces the chances of stroke by 90 %. In…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.htct.2026.106458
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The impact of a second embryo biopsy for preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic diseases (PGT-M) with inconclusive results on pregnancy potential: results from a matched case-control study.

Guarneri C, Reschini M, Pinna M et al. · 2024 · Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics

Purpose To evaluate whether a second biopsy, following a first diagnostic failure on blastocysts tested for preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic diseases (PGT-M), allows to obtain genetic diagnosis and to what extent this…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10815-024-03078-w
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Diagnostic impact of secondary findings from whole genome or whole exome sequencing in patients diagnosed with genetic eye disorders

Mehta SP, Antonio Aguirre B, See WYN et al. · 2025 · Preprint

Purpose Whole exome or genome sequencing (WES and WGS, respectively) can be valuable in identifying the molecular basis of inherited retinal disorders (IRD), particularly when panel-based testing yields negative or inconclusive results.…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.03.25322102
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Hormonal and reproductive factors and risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Chinese women: a case-control study.

Su XY, Schroder A, Tse LA et al. · 2025 · BMC research notes

Background Sex hormones may play a role in the development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but the evidence is limited. Methods This case-control study collected information on sex hormonal and reproductive factors of 99 female incident…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s13104-025-07471-1
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Persistent cognitive deficits in ACL-injured athletes despite of rehabilitation: an observational longitudinal study.

Jiménez-Martínez J, Alarcón-López F, Chirosa-Ríos LJ et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in sports and active living

Background Rehabilitation programs following an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury tend to focus on improving conditional aspects such as biomechanics. Recently, some studies have analyzed the relationship between cognition and ACL…

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1601744
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Pre-Analytical and Analytical Challenges in Whole-Exome Sequencing of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Breast and Prostate Cancer Tissue: A Real-World Multicenter Study.

Rosa ML, Bordignon C, Schuch JB et al. · 2026 · Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)

Background/Objectives : Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue is widely used in pathology and molecular diagnostics, yet its variable quality can critically influence the accuracy of sequencing-based analyses. This study investigated…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics16111595
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Comprehensive assessment of invalid and indeterminate results in Truenat MTB-RIF testing across sites under the national TB elimination program of India.

Gopalaswamy R, Kumar N, Vashistha H et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in public health

Introduction Truenat MTB-RIF assay (Truenat), a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT), is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) chip-based assay that can detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) and rifampicin (RIF) drug…

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1255756
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Foodborne pathogens in the plastisphere: Can microplastics in the food chain threaten microbial food safety?

Tavelli R, Callens M, Grootaert C et al. · 2024 · Trends in Food Science & Technology.

Microplastics (MPs) contaminate the global marine and terrestrial ecosystems. This environmental contamination can enter the food chain, with MPs found in drinking water, fishery products and other food categories. Consequently, ingestion…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2022.08.021
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Discovery of a novel bandavirus using metagenomic sequencing in a retrospective analysis of an unresolved 2020 mortality event involving black vultures in the northeastern United States

Mwakibete L, Hoarau AOG, Ahyong V et al. · 2024 · Preprint

Investigations of wildlife diseases and mortality events can sometimes lead to inconclusive results due to limitations in diagnostics combined with an ever-increasing number of emerging viruses. The use of tools such as unbiased…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.21.629921
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Magnetic fields from indoor transformer stations and risk of cancer in adults: a cohort study.

Juutilainen J, Khan MW, Naarala J et al. · 2024 · Occupational and environmental medicine

Objectives Studies assessing the association of adult cancers with extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields (MF) have provided inconclusive results, probably affected by limitations such as low exposure levels, confounding and various…

View details →DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2024-109466
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Cytogenomics and optical genome mapping approaches characterize a derivative interstitial monosomy 18p due to a maternal complex intrachromosomal rearrangement.

Graziani L, Genovese S, Genovesi ML et al. · 2025 · Molecular cytogenetics

Background Monosomy 18p (MIM: 146390) is a well-known chromosomal disorder associated with intellectual disability, short stature, and non-specific craniofacial features resulting from partial or total deletion of the short arm of…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s13039-025-00732-5
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The Role of Inflammasomes in LPS and Gram-Negative Bacterial Sepsis.

Hernández-Cuellar E, Tsuchiya K, Medina-Contreras O et al. · 2025 · Journal of clinical medicine

Background/Objectives : Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by an uncontrolled immune response due to systemic infections. It is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Although inflammasomes play an important role…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/jcm14197102
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Ivermectin performance against equine strongylids: Efficacy, egg reappearance periods, and fecal egg counting method comparison.

Nielsen MK, Bartholdy ID, Kristensen KS et al. · 2025 · Veterinary parasitology

Equine strongylids are ubiquitous and can cause severe health issues. Anthelmintic resistance is widely common in cyathostomin parasites, and recent studies have documented increasing incidence of resistance to the macrocyclic lactone drug…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2025.110465
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Clinical utility of comprehensive gene panel testing for common and rare causes of skeletal dysplasia and other skeletal disorders: Results from the largest cohort to date.

MacCarrick G, Aradhya S, Bailey M et al. · 2024 · American journal of medical genetics. Part A

Molecular genetics enables more precise diagnoses of skeletal dysplasia and other skeletal disorders (SDs). We investigated the clinical utility of multigene panel testing for 5011 unrelated individuals with SD in the United States…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63646
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Upfront Exercise Hemodynamic Phenotyping of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension and Left Heart Disease Risk Factors: A Prospective Experience.

Karvasarski E, Park J, Savaris S et al. · 2026 · CJC open

Background Resting hemodynamic assessment of suspected pulmonary hypertension (PH) in older adults with cardiovascular risk factors may not effectively discriminate pre-capillary from post-capillary disease. Exercise right-heart…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2026.02.005
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Pathophysiological mechanisms of gut dysbiosis and food allergy and an investigation of probiotics as an intervention for atopic disease.

Crabtree D, Seidler K, Barrow M · 2025 · Clinical nutrition ESPEN

Background and aims Epidemiological studies have associated reduced bacterial diversity and abundance and food allergy. This mechanistic review investigated the link between gut dysbiosis and food allergy with a focus on the role of…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.11.019