Fructose uptake by brown adipose tissue is independent of carbohydrate response element-binding protein and does not cause elevated de novo lipogenesis.
Part of the results reproduced; minor but material deviations remained.
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- ✓No relevant deviation in data/preprocessing
- ✓Any deviation was negligible
- 🔴Could not use the authors’ exact input data
- 🔴Reported values were only indirectly comparable
- 🔴A deviation was attributed to the published material
- 🟡Reported values were not (fully) derivable from the shared data
- 🟡The central claim did not (fully) hold under reproduction
- 🟡Overall, the reproduction showed a material discrepancy
This paper has a computational component, but its primary data is legally or ethically access-restricted — identifiable patient cohorts, rare-disease genomes, or controlled-access biobanks that cannot be openly shared. The reproduction therefore could not be attempted. That is a neutral verdict: it does not mean the result is wrong or that the authors fell short — only that, for legitimate privacy reasons, it cannot be independently checked from public data. We deliberately do NOT assign a 0–100 score here, because a low number would wrongly read as a failed reproduction.
▸Reproduction agent’s raw note
DROP. Paper is a UKE Hamburg (Heeren/Scheja lab) study on fructose uptake in brown adipose tissue, nominally gold-OA via sciengine.com per Unpaywall/DOAJ, but the publisher's PDF and HTML endpoints return HTTP 418 anti-bot blocks under every access method tried (browser-emulating WebFetch, wget from the cell, wget from a live «our HPC» SLURM compute node with real internet egress, and an external reader-proxy). No PMC/bioRxiv/ResearchGate/institutional mirror exists. Only the abstract was retrievable (via Europe PMC and Semantic Scholar APIs), which describes a purely wet-lab study design (mouse feeding trials with ChREBP/GLUT5 genetic models, primary brown-adipocyte-culture tracer-uptake assays, and MS-based lipidomics of hexosylceramide species) with no stated sequencing or bioinformatics pipeline. No data or code repository/accession (GEO/SRA/MetaboLights/Metabolomics Workbench/GitHub/Zenodo) could be located anywhere. Because the Methods and Data/Code Availability sections could not be read, no pipeline-derived result could be scoped, attempted, or graded, and no dataset could be profiled beyond 'not locatable.' This is recorded as a docs-insufficient/data-inaccessible drop per the task's Hard Rule 7, not a computational or scientific finding about the paper. HPC access itself (portalctl -> «our HPC» SLURM -> «infra» scratch) was independently verified functional via 3 completed jobs, so this is not an infrastructure failure.
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- Reproduced
- 2026-07-29
- Rubric version
- v1.0
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- Last updated
- 2026-07-31
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This is a clean drop for inaccessibility, not a scientific finding. The paper is nominally gold OA, but sciengine.com returns HTTP 418 anti-bot blocks on every path tried (WebFetch, cell wget, «our HPC» compute-node wget in «job» with genuine internet egress, and r.jina.ai), and there is no PMC, bioRxiv, ResearchGate or institutional mirror — so Methods and Data/Code-Availability were never read and no accession or repository could be located. Consequently claims: [] and datasets: []: nothing was reported-vs-reproduced, which is why q1/q2 are red (no comparable input or endpoint) while q3/q6 are green (there is no deviation to locate or size). The blame sits on access/availability (authors' + publisher side) — hence q4 red — but since we never saw the values, q5 and q7 stay yellow rather than red: nothing here is fabrication-suspect, it is simply untestable. q8 yellow records a well-documented, infrastructure-verified drop (SLURM «job» all COMPLETED) rather than a substantive discrepancy.
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