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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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Impacts of sarcopenia and resistance exercise training on mitochondrial quality control proteins.

Springer-Sapp CB, Ogbara OO, Addison O et al. · 2025 · The Journal of frailty & aging

Background The progression of sarcopenia with aging may be related to mitochondrial dysfunction due in part to altered mitochondrial dynamics (fusion, fission, mitophagy, and biogenesis). Previous work has identified altered expression of…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.tjfa.2025.100090
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Investigating the effects of antipsychotic drugs as a treatment for improving the activity of the unc-33 /Dpysl2 gene in C. elegans .

Miranda MC, Hyde J, Salazar K et al. · 2024 · microPublication biology

Prenatal stress is hypothesized to contribute to the development of schizophrenia. Lee and colleagues determined that prenatal stress in rats decreases levels of Dpysl2, which is found to be inactivated in schizophrenic patients. UNC-33 ,…

View details →DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001063
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Overuse-Induced Muscle Disorder: Establishing a Rat Model to Unravel the Role of Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitor Cells in Intramuscular Fibrosis.

Fusagawa H, Sato T, Naito A et al. · 2025 · Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society

Overuse-induced muscle disorders (OIMD) frequently occur in athletes due to excessive and improper use under high physical demand, often leading to muscle pain and weakness. Limited studies have shown intramuscular fibrosis in OIMD, with…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/jor.70076
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Forward planning in a population- based alcohol use disorder sample

Steffen J, Fischbach PC, Gönner L et al. · 2022 · Preprint

ABSTRACT Background Etiological theories of addictive behavior postulate a key role for decision-making mechanisms. However, current research is lacking clear computational models for decision-making in multi-step forward planning…

View details →DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.21.517329
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Nutrition in early life interacts with genetic risk to influence preadult behaviour in the Raine Study.

Byg LM, Wang CA, Attia J et al. · 2026 · Communications medicine

Background Early life nutrition is associated with child behaviour; however, the interplay with genetic vulnerability is understudied. We hypothesised that psychiatric genetic risk interacted with early nutrition to predict behavioural…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-01339-y
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Sign-tracking bias is associated with the inhibition of motor response to appetitive food cues.

Najberg H, Tapparel M, Holmann JN et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)

Response training, such as with the Go/NoGo task, reduces the value of trained items by requiring participants to repeatedly inhibit their responses to appetitive cues that typically elicit approach tendencies. This devaluation is thought…

View details →DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1118
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Trait emotion regulation similarity and well-being.

Eldesouky L, Gross JJ, English T · 2025 · Scientific reports

The ways people manage their emotions (emotion regulation; ER) have been found to affect their own well-being and the well-being of others. In the present research, we extended prior work by examining whether similarity between people's ER…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-08245-2
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Experimentally induced sleep restriction relates to less healthy eating behaviors in some adolescents: effects of age, sex, race, weight class, and socioeconomic status.

Hernandez C, Jensen CD, Duraccio KM · 2025 · Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society

Study objectives This secondary data analysis study was designed to evaluate demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that may increase the magnitude of the impact of experimentally induced shortened sleep on suboptimal eating…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpaf050
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Impact of acute sleep restriction on cerebrovascular reactivity and neurovascular coupling in young men and women.

McDonald MJ, Marsh ML, Fears SD et al. · 2025 · Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)

Chronic exposure to shortened sleep is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Previous studies show insufficient (e.g., poor or fragmented) sleep impairs cerebrovascular reactivity to metabolic stress and…

View details →DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00648.2024
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Effects of protein restriction on insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 in men with prostate cancer: results from a randomized clinical trial.

Cagigas ML, Fiorito G, Bertozzi B et al. · 2024 · Biomarker research

Background Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 and its binding proteins are important in cancer growth, especially in prostate cancer. Observational studies suggest that protein restriction can lower IGF-1 levels. However, it is unclear…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s40364-024-00613-w
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Effect of prolonged sitting on dynamic cerebral autoregulation in the anterior and posterior cerebral circulations.

Saito S, Tsukamoto H, Karaki M et al. · 2025 · Experimental physiology

Individuals who experience prolonged sitting daily are reported to be at risk of developing cerebrovascular disease, which is associated, in part, with attenuation in cerebral blood flow regulation. However, the effect of prolonged sitting…

View details →DOI: 10.1113/ep092178
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Changes in trunk displacement and ground reaction force during right-left hand-behind-back movement.

Suzuki K, Kamijo F, Nishinaka N · 2025 · Journal of physical therapy science

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the trunk displacement and ground reaction force during hand-behind-back (HBB) movements between the right and left hands. [Participants and Methods] Twenty healthy right-handed men…

View details →DOI: 10.1589/jpts.37.274
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Black female emerging adult college students' ethnic-racial identity components predicting physical health.

Williams CD, Sobolewski CM, Cage J et al. · 2026 · Journal of American college health : J of ACH

Black American women are disproportionately affected by diseases, such as obesity, heart disease, and cancer, and risks are reduced by better physical activity and nutrition. Given these disparities, it is particularly important to…

View details →DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2025.2611274
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Peer Action Coordination in Middle Childhood: A Replication Null Finding on Emotion Understanding and Inhibitory Control

Barresi G, Viana KMP, Hermansen TK et al. · 2025 · Preprint

Peer action coordination in middle childhood is thought to benefit from socio-cognitive abilities such as emotion understanding and inhibitory control, but empirical evidence for their role is limited. This study replicates and extends a…

View details →DOI: 10.20944/preprints202512.0218.v1
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Loss of calcium-dependent phospholipase A2 contributes to multi-omic changes in mouse denervated skeletal muscle.

Czyżowska-Froemling A, Xu H, Harold K et al. · 2026 · Physiological reports

Age-related loss of innervation in skeletal muscle is a key driver of sarcopenia. We investigated the role of calcium-dependent phospholipase A 2 (cPLA 2 ) in denervation-atrophy. cPLA 2 mediates the release of polyunsaturated fatty acid…

View details →DOI: 10.14814/phy2.70906
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Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diet Quality Among Adults in the Province of Quebec: Longitudinal Analyses of the NutriQuébec Project

Lancup-Gauthier A, Brassard D, Côté M et al. · 2022 · Current developments in nutrition

Objectives While there is evidence that the early lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic may have had small positive impacts on several populations’ dietary habits, the longer term effects remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to…

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Neural Responses to Auditory Food Stimuli Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge-Eating Disorder.

Chao AM, Agarwal K, Zhou Y et al. · 2024 · The International journal of eating disorders

Objective Adults with binge-eating disorder (BED), compared with those without BED, demonstrate higher blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response to food cues in reward-related regions of the brain. It is not known whether cognitive…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/eat.24244
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Out-of-home care placement and mortality rate in early adulthood: identifying vulnerable subgroups in a nationwide cohort study.

Sørensen TT, Rod NH, Nguyen TL et al. · 2023 · European journal of epidemiology

Out-of-home care has been linked to excess mortality across the lifespan. We examined whether this association is modified by the age at first out-of-home care placement and the number of placements. In this population-based cohort study,…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10654-022-00959-1
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Directional deficits in reactive postural control during perturbations among groups of chronic ankle instability, ankle sprain coper, and healthy control.

Kim MJ, Kim S, Kim J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports

Unanticipated postural control measures may better identify mechanisms of ankle sprains in real-life situations. The purpose of this study was to identify directional deficits in reactive postural control during unanticipated horizontal…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-98913-0