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Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
Policy
The Scientist Staff | Feb 22, 1987 | 10+ min read
For psychiatrist David A. Hamburg, an early interest in biobehavioral aspects of stress and aggression has broadened to embrace many issues in education, health and public policy. After brief stints at Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research and as chief of the adult psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, he established the psychiatry department at Stanford University's medical school in 1961. Hamburg left Stan-ford in 1975 to become president of the Institute of Me
Faculty Fallout
Benjamin Ginsberg | Aug 1, 2011 | 3 min read
Administrators have taken over US universities, and they’re steering institutions of higher learning away from the goal of serving as beacons of knowledge.
WHO Leads in Using Solid Science to Draft COVID-19 Policy: Study
Max Kozlov | Jan 8, 2021 | 5 min read
Governments are variable in their reliance on highly cited research, while international intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization reliably link policy and science, according to an analysis of thousands of policy documents from the first half of 2020.
Creation Of Sound Science Policy Hindered By Budget Debates
Rep. George Brown | Apr 13, 1997 | 7 min read
For too long, national debates on science and technology (S&T) policy have been conducted as a footnote to budget debates. Nagging and important issues, fundamental to the conduct and future of our national research and development (R&D) enterprise, have been left to languish while Congress debates artful accounting exercises that do not pencil out, budgets that are really Trojan horses for someone's ideological social blueprints, or "feel-good" proposals to increase spending on R&D
Racism Has An Impact On Research And Health Care Policy
Lovell Jones | Feb 16, 1997 | 7 min read
Illustrator: John Overmyer Benign neglect, or ignoring an often undesirable situation rather than dealing with it, is an attitude with which minorities are quite familiar. Couple it with politics and racism, and you face a system that has been unresponsive to the educational, research, and health care needs of minorities and the poor in the United States. Few mainstream research institutions or government agencies have addressed minority health in a proactive manner. Most take a reactive appr
David Julius Probes the Molecular Mechanics of Pain
Anna Azvolinsky | Jan 1, 2018 | 8 min read
For nearly 30 years, the UC San Francisco researcher has delved into unexplored corners of the nervous system.
The Specter of Denialism
Nicoli Nattrass | Mar 1, 2012 | 3 min read
Conspiracy theories surrounding the global HIV/AIDS epidemic have cost thousands of lives. But science is fighting back.
University Technology Offices Focus Effort On Overcoming Academic 'Cultural' Barriers
Lee Katterman | Jun 11, 1995 | 7 min read
The Scientist 9[12]:1, Jun. 12, 1995 News University Technology Offices Focus Effort On Overcoming Academic 'Cultural' Barriers Now that efficient systems are in place for patenting, the matter at hand is surmounting concerns about the process among faculty By Lee Katterman Sidebars Using the Internet for Technology Transfer . . . Royalty-Sharing Formulas* of the Top 10 U.S. Universities . . . In little more than a decade, licensing of university technology h
Reproductive Research Progresses Despite Restrictions
Sara Latta | Mar 1, 1998 | 8 min read
While the ethics of human cloning has dominated recent discussion of reproductive technologies, research involving human embryos has always been a political hot potato, entangled with the twin issues of abortion and the beginning of human life. Restrictive policies and negative public attitudes surrounding embryo research have made it increasingly difficult for the infertility research community to improve the success rates for assisted reproductive technologies. According to the Centers for Di

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