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How providers are helping shape health policy

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Clarice 0 Comments Advocacy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Research, Science Policy

“The work of a physician as a healer cannot stop at the door of an office, the threshold of an operating room, or the front

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Do-it-yourself laboratories democratize science

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 Clarice 1 Comment Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Citizen Science, DIY Laboratories, health policy, Science Policy, Scientific Research

In the era of social media and online tutorials, do-it-yourself (DIY) projects are more popular than ever. This trend is making its way into community

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Alternative science: The importance of informed policymaking

July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 Clarice 0 Comments Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Cody Brannan, health policy, Science, Science Policy

You’ve probably heard the phrase “alternative facts” by now. Suddenly, “alternative” is part of our vocabulary as a popular characterization for falsehoods that are portrayed

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Intelligence and genetic essentialism

June 16, 2017June 15, 2017 Clarice 1 Comment Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Cody Brannan, Discrimination, DNA, Genetic Essentialism, Genetics, Genomics, Health Policy Program, Neuroethics, Neuroscience, Research, Science Policy

In 1869, Francis Galton reasoned that if human intellect was determined to be hereditary, then it “would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race

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From the Labs Image of the Month

From The Labs Image of the Month From the Labs features an image of early physical training of Rett mice, which results in the development of more dendritic arbors or cellular projections in a task-specific group of neurons in the hippocampus (red). Image credit: N.P. Achilly/Zoghbi lab/Nature, 2021.

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