“What CITI Program is Reading” is our weekly blog series which highlights news articles curated by our staff and relevant to research, higher education, healthcare, technology, and more. Follow us on LinkedIn for upcoming editions and more information from CITI Program.
A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data
Source: Buzz Feed Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.
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Researchers Ready Lab-Grown Covid-19 Delta Variant for Human Trials
Source: Wall Street Journal British researchers are making progress growing a carefully controlled batch in a lab that they hope to use to infect volunteers, marking a new phase in the only studies intentionally exposing participants to Covid-19.
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Sony's head of AI research wants to build robots that can win a Nobel Prize
Source: Engadget AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years.
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Excel autocorrect errors still plague genetic research, raising concerns over scientific rigour
Source: The Conversation New research shows gene name autocorrection remains a problem for genomics articles. Here’s why it’s a wake up call for research reproducibility.
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NIH HEAL Initiative: Research Meets the Moment to Address the Opioid Public Health Crisis
Source: National Institutes of Health NIH leadership highlight the results and progress of number strategies to find scientific solutions to address the nation’s opioid crisis.
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Controversy flares over informing research subjects about ‘incidental’ genetic findings
Source: Science Magazine Study authors urge routine return of findings that are medically actionable; other bioethicists cry foul.
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How Broad Data Collection Can Eliminate Health Disparities
Source: Health IT Analytics Broad data collection can improve precision medicine, predicative analytics, artificial intelligence, eliminating care disparities.
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How Blockchain Will Change the Way We Work, Play and Stay Healthy in the Future
Source: NASDAQ Blockchain may not be as famous as Bitcoin and many of the cryptocurrencies that it works to power across an ever-evolving ecosystem, but the technology’s applications may be capable of stretching far further than the coins it supports.
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Where are IoMT-based wearables going next?
Source: Medical Design & Outsourcing Here are three significant trends shaping the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) space.
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