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Males still dominate animal studies
Many researchers avoid using female animals. Stringent measures should consign this prejudice to the past, argue Irving Zucker and Annaliese Beery, in the third piece of three on gender bias in biomedicine.
- Irving Zucker
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Sex bias in trials and treatment must end
Gender inequalities in biomedical research are undermining patient care. In the first of three related pieces, Alison M. Kim, Candace M. Tingen and Teresa K. Woodruff call on journals, funding agencies and researchers to give women parity with men, in studies and in the clinic.
- Alison M. Kim
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Medics performed 'interrogation research'
Human-rights advocacy group alleges major ethics breaches.
- Meredith Wadman
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Challenges of our own making
The successful transplantation of a synthesized genome highlights unresolved ethical and security issues posed by synthetic biology.
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Airport security: Intent to deceive?
Can the science of deception detection help to catch terrorists? Sharon Weinberger takes a close look at the evidence for it.
- Sharon Weinberger
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Panel to take broad view of bioethics
President Obama appoints commission to advise on stem cells, clinical trials and more.
- Brendan Borrell
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Lab-animal battle reaches truce
Biomedical scientists say revised European directive on animal welfare averts feared disaster for research.
- Alison Abbott
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Anonymizing patient records for genomics
New method for concealing identity could open up more data for science.
- Daniel Cressey
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Correspondence |
Industry in academia: ethical frameworks would clarify links
- Annalee Yassi
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Theft or innovation?
A history of intellectual-property rights reveals how the pirating of ideas and goods has transformed science publishing, drug development and software, explains Michael Gollin.
- Michael Gollin
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Outcry stopped approved pig study of avalanche survival
- Hermann Brugger
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UCLA brings together animal-research factions
Dialogue is key to dealing with extremism, say panellists on both sides of debate.
- Amber Dance
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The woman behind HeLa
Steve Silberman enjoys a moving account that probes racial and ethical issues in medicine through the story of the young mother whose death from cancer led to the first immortal cell line.
- Steve Silberman
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Plans for alien contact found wanting
Governments lack frameworks to respond to discoveries.
- Lucas Laursen
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Security ethics
Manufacturers of computer systems should welcome researchers' efforts to find flaws.
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Streamlined chemical tests rebuffed
Europe impedes introduction of REACH safety assessments.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Publish or perish in China
The pressure to rack up publications in high-impact journals could encourage misconduct, some say.
- Jane Qiu