Bold and coordinated leadership at the federal level is essential to create secure, long-term, sustainable biomedical research funding policies based on strategic priorities, say Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, of Georgetown University Medical Center and Elaine R. Rubin, PhD, of Association of Academic Health Centers, in a commentary about America’s fledgling biomedical research framework. The […]
People want to be informed and asked for consent before deciding whether to let researchers share their genetic information in a federal database. This is according to a team of investigators at Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington (UW). The team’s report, called “Glad You Asked,” is in the September 2010 Journal […]
A new University of British Columbia study says that an over reliance on research subjects from the United States and other Western nations can produce false claims about human psychology and behavior because their psychological tendencies are highly unusual compared to the global population. The study will soon be published in Nature and Behavioral Sciences […]
Scientific advances often provoke deep concern on the part of the public, especially when these advances challenge strongly held political or moral perspectives. An American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ project on Improving the Scientific Community’s Understanding of Public Concerns about Science and Technology examined the ways in which scientists engage with the public, and […]
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