title: EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research.
abstract: We argue that the field of extracellular vesicle (EV) biology needs more transparent reporting to facilitate interpretation and replication of experiments. To achieve this, we describe EV-TRACK, a crowdsourcing knowledgebase (http://evtrack.org) that centralizes EV biology and methodology with the goal of stimulating authors, reviewers, editors and funders to put experimental guidelines into practice.
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mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D000067128:Extracellular Vesicles / Q000502:physiology*; D038622:Internationality