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FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials
Source: Science New law welcomed by animal welfare groups, but others say change won’t happen fast.
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FDA Increasingly Halting Human Trials as Companies Pursue Risky, Cutting-Edge Drugs
Source: Wall Street Journal The agency is placing more holds on trials to protect patients and ensure studies are designed properly, a Wall Street Journal review found.
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Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?
Source: STAT News Despite the many failures of our Covid response, very little about U.S. pandemic infrastructure has changed. But some are still working to find compromise reforms.
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Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
Source: Science Researchers discover how DNA sequences must mutate to free their RNA to make proteins.
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Mistakes happen in research papers. But corrections often don’t
Source: STAT News A culture of fear around corrections and retractions is hampering efforts to maintain the integrity of scientific research.
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Research Summaries Written by AI Fool Scientists
Source: Scientific American Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans
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If Technology Doesn’t Empower Research Sites, It Risks Slowing Down Clinical Trials
Source: Forbes Here’s how the tech industry can build site enablement platforms that address researchers’ needs.
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How coaching could help tackle toxic research cultures
Source: Nature Simon Kay wants to use his newly acquired skills as a life and leadership coach to improve how science is led and managed.
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ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now
Source: Inside Higher Ed To harness the potential and avert the risks of OpenAI’s new chat bot, academics should think a few years out, invite students into the conversation and—most of all—experiment, not panic.
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Universities are failing to capture the value of their data, research finds
Source: Higher Ed Dive Disagreements over when and how to use data, along with decentralized systems, prevent universities from making the most of what they have.
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