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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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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