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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 ReportOpen accessMedicine

Mortality in Individuals Aged 80 and Older with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Relation to Glycosylated Hemoglobin, Blood Pressure, and Total Cholesterol

Shota Hamada, Martin Gulliford · 2016 · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether low glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), blood pressure (BP), and total cholesterol (TC) are associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality in very old individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus. DESIGN:…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14215Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Acute Sleep Deprivation Enhances Post-Infection Sleep and Promotes Survival during Bacterial Infection inDrosophila

Tzu‐Hsing Kuo, Julie A. Williams · 2014 · SLEEP

STUDY OBJECTIVES: Sleep is known to increase as an acute response to infection. However, the function of this behavioral response in host defense is not well understood. To address this problem, we evaluated the effect of acute sleep…

View details →DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3648Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Evaluation of gene xpert for routine diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis in Nigeria: A prospective cohort study

Maxwell Akanbi, Chad J. Achenbach, Babafemi Taiwo et al. · 2017 · BMC Pulmonary Medicine

BACKGROUND: Xpert MTB/Rif (Xpert) is described as a game changer in tuberculosis (TB) control. We evaluated the impact of Xpert on diagnosis, time to treatment, and treatment outcome among patients with HIV associated TB in Nigeria. METHODS: Adults with HIV being evaluated for pulmonary TB (PTB) were consecutively enrolled into the study cohort. At baseline, expectorated sputa were examined using Xpert and smear microscopy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and acid fast bacilli, respectively. Patients diagnosed with TB were followed-up until 6 months post TB diagnosis. TB was defined as spu

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12890-017-0430-6Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Photodynamic therapy changes tumour immunogenicity and promotes immune-checkpoint blockade response, particularly when combined with micromechanical priming

Catarina S. Lobo, Maria Inês P. Mendes, Diogo A. Pereira et al. · 2023 · Scientific Reports

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with redaporfin stimulates colon carcinoma (CT26), breast (4T1) and melanoma (B16F10) cells to display high levels of CD80 molecules on their surfaces. CD80 overexpression amplifies immunogenicity because it increases same cell (cis) CD80:PD-L1 interactions, which (i) disrupt binding of T-cells PD-1 inhibitory receptors with their ligands (PD-L1) in tumour cells, and (ii) inhibit CTLA-4 inhibitory receptors binding to CD80 in tumour cells. In some cancer cells, redaporfin-PDT also increases CTLA-4 and PD-L1 expressions and virtuous combinations between PDT and immune

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38862-8Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

High-affinity Anticalins with aggregation-blocking activity directed against the Alzheimer β-amyloid peptide

Sabine Rauth, Dominik Hinz, Michael A. Borger et al. · 2016 · Biochemical Journal

Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides, in particular Aβ42 and Aβ40, exert neurotoxic effects and their overproduction leads to amyloid deposits in the brain, thus constituting an important biomolecular target for treatments of Alzheimer's disease…

View details →DOI: 10.1042/bcj20160114Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Histone Deacetylation Critically Determines T Cell Subset Radiosensitivity

Jason L. Pugh, Alona S. Sukhina, Thomas M. Seed et al. · 2014 · The Journal of Immunology

Lymphocytes are sensitive to ionizing radiation and naive lymphocytes are more radiosensitive than their memory counterparts. Less is known about radiosensitivity of memory cell subsets. We examined the radiosensitivity of naive (TN),…

View details →DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1400434Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Various Simulated Body Fluids Lead to Significant Differences in Collagen Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Tomáš Suchý, Martin Bartoš, Radek Sedláček et al. · 2021 · Materials

This study aims to point out the main drawback with respect to the design of simulated body environments. Three media commonly used for the simulation of the identical body environment were selected, i.e., Kokubo's simulated body fluid that simulates the inorganic component of human blood plasma, human blood plasma, and phosphate buffer saline. A comparison was performed of the effects of the media on collagen scaffolds. The mechanical and structural effects of the media were determined via the application of compression mechanical tests, the determination of mass loss, and image and micro-CT

View details →DOI: 10.3390/ma14164388Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Very Early Administration of Progesterone Does Not Improve Neuropsychological Outcomes in Subjects with Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Felicia C. Goldstein, Angela F. Caveney, Vicki Hertzberg et al. · 2016 · Journal of Neurotrauma

A Phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (ProTECT III) found that administration of progesterone did not reduce mortality or improve functional outcome as measured by the Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) in subjects with…

View details →DOI: 10.1089/neu.2015.4313Cited by 34
Replication FailureOpen accessMedicine

ALBAN (GETUG-AFU 37): a phase III, randomized, open-label international trial of intravenous atezolizumab and intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) versus BCG alone in BCG-naive high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC)

M. Roupret, Aurélie Bertaut, G. Pignot et al. · 2025 · Annals of Oncology

BACKGROUND: Standard treatment of high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) after transurethral resection of bladder tumor is intravesical instillation with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) (induction and maintenance regimens);…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2025.09.017Cited by 34
Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Investigating the Interplay of Chinese English as Foreign Language Learners' Growth Mindset, Enjoyment, Adaptability, and Engagement in AI ‐Mediated Informal Digital Learning of English

Yongliang Wang, Yumeng Guo · 2026 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

ABSTRACT Background The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped English as Foreign Language (EFL) instruction, offering new opportunities for language learning. While much of the existing research focuses on AI integration in…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/jcal.70189Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Spinal cord injury: Known and possible influences on the immune response to exercise

Christof A. Leicht, Victoria L. Goosey‐Tolfrey, Nicolette C. Bishop · 2026 · PubMed

A spinal cord injury (SCI) can increase the risk of infection by impacting on many aspects of immune function; one particularly well-documented observation is a reduction in lymphocyte numbers. The vast majority of lymphoid cells express…

View details →DOI: 10.22029/eir.2013.1683Cited by 33
Replication FailureOpen accessNeuroscience

Replicating five pupillometry studies of Eckhard Hess

Joost de Winter, Sebastiaan M. Petermeijer, Lars Kooijman et al. · 2021 · International Journal of Psychophysiology

Several papers by Eckhard Hess from the 1960s and 1970s report that the pupils dilate or constrict according to the interest value, arousing content, or mental demands of visual stimuli. However, Hess mostly used small sample sizes and undocumented luminance control. In a first experiment (N = 182) and a second preregistered experiment (N = 147), we replicated five studies of Hess using modern equipment. Our experiments (1) did not support the hypothesis of gender differences in pupil diameter change with respect to baseline (PC) when viewing stimuli of different interest value, (2) showed tha

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.03.003Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Stepwise dual antiplatelet therapy de-escalation in patients after drug coated balloon angioplasty (REC-CAGEFREE II): multicentre, randomised, open label, assessor blind, non-inferiority trial

Chao Gao, Bin Zhu, Fan Ouyang et al. · 2025 · BMJ

Abstract Objectives To investigate whether a less intense antiplatelet regimen could be used for people receiving drug coated balloons. Design Multicentre, randomised, open label, assessor blind, non-inferiority trial (REC-CAGEFREE II).…

View details →DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2024-082945Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Non-Stationarity in Time-Series Analysis: Modeling Stochastic and Deterministic Trends

Oisín Ryan, Jonas M B Haslbeck, Lourens Waldorp · 2025 · Multivariate Behavioral Research

Time series analysis is increasingly popular across scientific domains. A key concept in time series analysis is stationarity, the stability of statistical properties of a time series. Understanding stationarity is crucial to addressing frequent issues in time series analysis such as the consequences of failing to model non-stationarity, how to determine the mechanisms generating non-stationarity, and consequently how to model those mechanisms (i.e., by differencing or detrending). However, many empirical researchers have a limited understanding of stationarity, which can lead to the use of in

View details →DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2024.2436413Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

The role of financial inclusion and technological innovation in stimulating environmental sustainability in the European countries: A new perspective based on load capacity factor

Ahmed Samour, Riza Radmehr, Ernest Baba Ali et al. · 2024 · Heliyon

Given the alarming level of climate change, policymakers across the globe are seeking strategies to mitigate environmental pollution to achieve sustainable development. In this context, renewable energy and technological advancements have…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39970Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result Report

Flexible Instruments Outperform Rigid Instruments to Place Anatomic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Femoral Tunnels Without Hyperflexion

Mark E. Steiner, L. Ryan Smart · 2012 · Arthroscopy

Purpose This study evaluated the ability of flexible instruments compared with rigid instruments to place anatomic femoral tunnels in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions by use of both transtibial drilling and anteromedial drilling…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2011.11.029Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Family-Based Association Analysis of Alcohol Dependence Criteria and Severity

Leah Wetherill, Manav Kapoor, Arpana Agrawal et al. · 2013 · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

BACKGROUND: Despite the high heritability of alcohol dependence (AD), the genes found to be associated with it account for only a small proportion of its total variability. The goal of this study was to identify and analyze phenotypes…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/acer.12251Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result Report

“We couldn’t think in the box if we tried. We can’t even find the damn box”: A qualitative study of the lived experiences of autistic adults and relatives of autistic adults

Tracy L. Finch, Joan Mackintosh, Alex Petrou et al. · 2022 · PLOS ONE

Autistic children grow to become autistic adults, and autism is increasingly diagnosed in adulthood and later life. This qualitative study aimed to understand experiences of autism throughout adulthood. A national cohort study of autistic…

View details →DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264932Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

When failure fails to be productive: probing the effectiveness of productive failure for learning beyond STEM domains

Valentina Nachtigall, Katja Serova, Nikol Rummel · 2020 · Instructional Science

Abstract The current work builds on research demonstrating the effectiveness of Productive Failure (PF) for learning. While the effectiveness of PF has been demonstrated for STEM learning, it has not yet been investigated whether PF is also beneficial for learning in non-STEM domains. Given this need to test PF for learning in domains other than mathematics or science, and the assumption that features embodied in a PF design are domain-independent, we investigated the effect of PF on learning social science research methods. We conducted two quasi-experimental studies with 212 and 152 10th gra

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s11251-020-09525-2Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Does affective touch influence the virtual reality full body illusion?

Jutta R. de Jong, Anouk Keizer, Manja M. Engel et al. · 2017 · Experimental Brain Research

The sense of how we experience our physical body as our own represents a fundamental component of human self-awareness. Body ownership can be studied with bodily illusions which are generated by inducing a visuo-tactile conflict where individuals experience illusionary ownership over a fake body or body part, such as a rubber hand. Previous studies showed that different types of touch modulate the strength of experienced ownership over a rubber hand. Specifically, participants experienced more ownership after the rubber hand illusion was induced through affective touch vs non-affective touch.

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-4912-9Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Reproducibility of brain-cognition relationships using three cortical surface-based protocols: An exhaustive analysis based on cortical thickness

Kenia Martínez, Sarah K. Madsen, Anand A. Joshi et al. · 2015 · Human Brain Mapping

People differ in their cognitive functioning. This variability has been exhaustively examined at the behavioral, neural and genetic level to uncover the mechanisms by which some individuals are more cognitively efficient than others.…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22843Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Tetrahydrobiopterin Protects Against Hypertrophic Heart Disease Independent of Myocardial Nitric Oxide Synthase Coupling

Toru Hashimoto, Vidhya Sivakumaran, Ricardo Carnicer et al. · 2016 · Journal of the American Heart Association

BACKGROUND: Nitric oxide synthase uncoupling occurs under conditions of oxidative stress modifying the enzyme's function so it generates superoxide rather than nitric oxide. Nitric oxide synthase uncoupling occurs with chronic pressure…

View details →DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003208Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

A machine learning approach to college drinking prediction and risk factor identification

Jinbo Bi, Jiangwen Sun, Yu‐Wei Wu et al. · 2013 · ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Alcohol misuse is one of the most serious public health problems facing adolescents and young adults in the United States. National statistics shows that nearly 90% of alcohol consumed by youth under 21 years of age involves binge drinking…

View details →DOI: 10.1145/2508037.2508053Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Relationship of Stock Price and Monetary Variables of Asian Small Open Emerging Economy: Evidence from Thailand

Nararuk Boonyanam · 2014 · International Journal of Financial Research

Monetary variables contain information to forecast stock price is still controversial. This paper examines the relationship between stock price and monetary variables in Thailand which is an Asian small open emerging economy. Monetary variables are consumer price index, nominal bilateral exchange rate in term of bath per US dollar, narrow money, and 14 days repurchased rate, employing a multivariate cointegration, VECM, variance decomposition and impulse response analysis covering the period of January 1999 to December 2012 with 168 observations. The study found a long run relationship between

View details →DOI: 10.5430/ijfr.v5n1p52Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Particulate ECM biomaterial ink is 3D printed and naturally crosslinked to form structurally-layered and lubricated cartilage tissue mimics

Jeanne E. Barthold, Kaitlin P. McCreery, Jaylene Martinez et al. · 2022 · Biofabrication

Abstract Articular cartilage is a layered tissue with a complex, heterogeneous structure and lubricated surface which is challenging to reproduce using traditional tissue engineering methods. Three-dimensional printing techniques have…

View details →DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/ac584cCited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

ClpP-deletion impairs the virulence of Legionella pneumophila and the optimal translocation of effector proteins

Beibei Zhao, Xianghui Li, Yonglun Zeng et al. · 2016 · BMC Microbiology

BACKGROUND: The opportunistic bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila uses substrate effectors of Dot/Icm type IVB secretion system (T4BSS) to accomplish survival and replication in amoebae cells and mammalian alveolar macrophages. During the conversion between its highly resistant, infectious dormant form and vigorously growing, uninfectious replicative form, L. pneumophila utilizes a complicated regulatory network in which proteolysis may play a significant role. As a highly conserved core protease, ClpP is involved in various cellular processes as well as virulence in bacteria, and has be

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0790-8Cited by 33
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Excess diacylglycerol at the endoplasmic reticulum disrupts endomembrane homeostasis and autophagy

Dan Li, Shu-Gao Yang, Cheng-Wen He et al. · 2020 · BMC Biology

BACKGROUND: When stressed, eukaryotic cells produce triacylglycerol (TAG) to store nutrients and mobilize autophagy to combat internal damage. We and others previously reported that in yeast, elimination of TAG synthesizing enzymes inhibits autophagy under nitrogen starvation, yet the underlying mechanism has remained elusive. RESULTS: Here, we show that disruption of TAG synthesis led to diacylglycerol (DAG) accumulation and its relocation from the vacuolar membrane to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We further show that, beyond autophagy, ER-accumulated DAG caused severe defects in the endom

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12915-020-00837-wCited by 33