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The Price Tag of Scientific Fraud
Kerry Grens | Aug 15, 2014 | 2 min read
Each paper retracted because of research misconduct costs taxpayers roughly $400,000, according to a report.
Sound Science Policy Requires Better Data Management
Daryl Chubin | Sep 15, 1991 | 7 min read
AUTHOR: DARYL E. CHUBIN AND ELIZABETH M. ROBINSON, p.11 How can Congress ensure that the best science continues to be funded, and that a full portfolio of research is maintained? The answer, in large part, is to collect sufficient and relevant data on the research enterprise in the United States, and to see that it is circulated efficiently among decision makers. The information should include, at a minimum, details on how research moneys are spent, on the scientific work force, on the key ele
Science and Politics in 2012
Bob Grant | Dec 19, 2012 | 4 min read
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
Genome Project Ethics Office Is Achieving New Prominence In National Policy Debates
Franklin Hoke | Oct 2, 1994 | 8 min read
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers Beginning this year, the component of the United States human genome initiative that has been sponsoring studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of the massive genome effort's ground-breaking research will be reporting the first hard resul
Genome Project Ethics Office Is Achieving New Prominence In National Policy Debates
Franklin Hoke | Oct 2, 1994 | 8 min read
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers Beginning this year, the component of the United States human genome initiative that has been sponsoring studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of the massive genome effort's ground-breaking research will be reporting the first hard resul
Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism
Sadye Paez and Erich D. Jarvis | Aug 18, 2020 | 7 min read
Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.
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The Long Journey to Resolve the Origins of a Previous Pandemic
Martha Nelson | Sep 2, 2021 | 10+ min read
Dozens of researchers, including myself, worked for years to uncover that swine flu had leapt to humans from a pig in Mexico in 2009. We learned a lot about influenza evolution, pig farming, and outbreak risk along the way.
NIH loosens stem cell consent rules
Elie Dolgin | Jul 5, 2009 | 3 min read
Final rules for human embryonic stem (ES) cell research, announced this afternoon (July 6) by the National Institutes of Health, require strict documentation detailing voluntary donation of embryos leftover from in-vitro fertilization procedures, but they also contain a mechanism for approving individual cell lines that don't meet the letter of the law but still adhere to the spirit of informed consent. Human embryonic stem cellsImage: Wikimedia/PLoSThe draft guidelines proposed in April expli
NIH's Raub on Misconduct
Tabitha Powledge | Dec 14, 1986 | 10 min read
Author: Tabitha M. Powledge Date: December 15, 1986 In August, William F Raub, a 20-year veteran of the National Institutes of Health, was named its deputy director. Raub received an A.B. from Wilkes College in 1961 and his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. He directed the development of PROPHET—an integrated computer system for studying chemical/biological interrelationships. From 1983-1986, he headed the agency's extramural program, including all research
Microscope visualization of Candida albicans in an esophageal sample from a rhesus monkey with thrush
Fungal Pathogens Flourish in the Pandemic’s Shadow
Christie Wilcox, PhD | Oct 25, 2022 | 3 min read
The World Health Organization’s first ever fungal priority pathogens list highlights the growing threat of fungal diseases and antifungal resistance.

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