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The Long, Contentious Battle to Regulate Gain-of-Function Work
Dec 11, 2024 · Concerns about Covid-19’s origins have brought calls for additional oversight of U.S. labs. That effort seems misplaced to some researchers, effectively hamstringing U.S. science in response to alleged biosafety lapses thousands of miles away.
The Pursuit of Death on Psychiatric Grounds - undark.org
Jan 15, 2025 · I n the Netherlands, the vast majority of euthanasia cases in 2023 were carried out by general practitioners, who must obtain a second opinion from an independent clinician and determine that the patient’s suffering is “unbearable, with no prospect of improvement.”. All cases are reviewed by regional boards like the one Touwen sat on, which retrospectively assess whether the medically ...
Opinion: Caring for Patients from Conflict Zones - undark.org
Dec 12, 2024 · I n recent months, I’ve taken a growing interest in reading the accounts of health care workers from conflict zones, areas of the world caught in a crossfire of warring factions, where men, women, and children bear the collateral damage wrought by bombs and bullets. Health care workers’ harrowing stories are some of the most unvarnished ones we have to hear, and as a physician myself, I ...
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
Dec 12, 2022 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
Why Alzheimer’s Scientists Are Re-thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis
Jan 7, 2025 · F or decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive decline. Given the global rise in cases, the stakes are high.A study published in The Lancet Public Health reports that the number of adults living with dementia worldwide is expected to nearly triple, to 153 ...
Book Review: A Reverent Tribute to Disappearing Creatures
Dec 27, 2024 · W riters whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how to convey that all hope is not lost, while presenting facts that can bear down on hope like an avalanche.. Hope is often fundamental to action, essential for rousing readers out of complacency; despair, meanwhile, can be an unhelpful ...
The Elusive Payoff of Gain-of-Function Research
Dec 23, 2024 · I n March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe shortness of breath. But no treatment could …
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. - Undark …
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can ...
Do Masks Work? Yes. No. Maybe. - Undark Magazine
Mar 2, 2023 · I think this is great perspective. I have a question. Is it likely that in any of the trials, they could have statistically found a 5-10% difference in transmission (arbitrary choice–the point is low percentage benefit).