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Celebrating R and D expenditures misses the point [Opinion] (2015)

Shapiro, D., Vrana, K.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-05

Description: As we in academic health centers are acutely aware, government funding for the biomedical sciences has gotten scarcer in the United States in recent years. The NIH budget peaked in 2010 at $31.2 billion; in 2014, it was $30.15 billion (1). This is concerning. Although we should continue to lobby...

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Can CRISPR gene drive help control invasives? [Opinion] (2015)

Webber, B. L., Raghu, S., Edwards, O. R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-08-26

Description: Scientists have recognized the potential for applying gene drive technologies to the control of invasive species for several years (1, 2), yet debate about the application of gene drive has been primarily restricted to mosquitoes (3). Recent developments in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 technology have restarted discussions...

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NIH must support broadly focused basic research [Medical Sciences] (2016)

Spradling, A. C.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-07-28

Description: NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability (from the NIH Mission Statement*). The NIH undertook a daring and radical research strategy after World War II. Previously,...

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Advancing neuroscience interactions with Cuba [Opinion] (2015)

Cohen, M. S., Hillyard, S. A., Galler, J. R., Neville, H. J., Rasenick, M. M., Reeves, A. J., Van Horn, J. D.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-05-13

Description: On December 17, 2014, US President Barack Obama announced historic actions toward normalizing United States relations with Cuba, and instructed Secretary of State John Kerry to re-establish diplomatic interactions between the two countries, so as “to reach for a better future for the Cuban people, for the American people, for...

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Specimen collections should have a much bigger role in infectious disease research and response [Opinion] (2016)

Di; Euliis, D., Johnson, K. R., Morse, S. S., Schindel, D. E.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-01-06

Description: When public health officials become aware of the first signs of a disease outbreak, they need to determine a few critical things as quickly as possible. What’s the disease agent? How did it get here? How does it spread and how can it be contained? Has it been seen before?...

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Climate change research after Paris [Political Sciences] (2016)

Boucher, O., Bellassen, V., Benveniste, H., Ciais, P., Criqui, P., Guivarch, C., Le Treut, H., Mathy, S., Seferian, R.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-07-06

Description: At each Conference of Parties (COP), scientists hand over the climate change problem to diplomats and policymakers. A COP also offers scientists a chance to take stock of their research, confront emerging policy questions, identify research gaps, and update their research agendas. We, as an interdisciplinary group of academic experts...

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Science in the age of selfies [Physics] (2016)

Geman, D., Geman, S.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-08-24

Description: A time traveler from 1915 arriving in 1965 would have been astonished by the scientific theories and engineering technologies invented during that half century. One can only speculate, but it seems likely that few of the major advances that emerged during those 50 years were even remotely foreseeable in 1915:...

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New approach to financial regulation [Opinion] (2015)

Levin, S. A., Lo, A. W.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-10-14

Description: It has been five years since the US Congress enacted the landmark Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and despite the fact that about 20% of the Act has yet to be implemented (1), several legislative initiatives are now attempting to soften or roll back key provisions. This...

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An urgent need to educate big data scientists [Computer Sciences] (2016)

Van Horn, J. D.

National Academy of Sciences

In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2016-06-08

Description: I like to tell my students a story about a time back in the “olden days” of the early 1990s when I was a newly minted postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our laboratory conducted brain imaging studies using positron emission tomographic imaging and would routinely obtain...

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NIH sex inclusion policy ushers in a new era for scientific discovery [Opinion] (2015)

Klein, S. L., Schiebinger, L., Stefanick, M. L., Cahill, L., Danska, J., de Vries, G. J., Kibbe, M. R., McCarthy, M. M., Mogil, J. S., Woodruff, T. K., Zucker, I.

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In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Publication Date: 2015-04-29

Description: Much of our understanding of disease processes and treatments begins with preclinical studies that use nonhuman animals and cell cultures. Such studies are integral to biomedical research and the development pipeline for drugs, devices, and biologics. Most preclinical biomedical research, however, has been conducted with inadequate consideration of sex (1–3)....

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