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NIH Collaboration Seeks to Help Understand U.S. Burden of Health Disparities: Why Your County Matters
Source: NIH Director's Blog Since the early 1990s, federal support of research has increased to understand minority health and identify and address health disparities.
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NIH’s BRAIN Initiative puts $500 million into creating most detailed ever human brain atlas
Source: Science Neuroscientists will build on census of mouse brain as massive program moves into new phase.
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This Teenager Invented a Low-Cost Tool to Spot Elephant Poachers in Real Time
Source: Smithsonian Magazine Seventeen-year-old Anika Puri created a machine-learning-driven model that analyzes the movement patterns of humans and elephants.
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U.S. math professor gets probation, not prison, in China Initiative case
Source: Science Mingqing Xiao is sentenced for tax return errors after jury rejected allegations of research fraud.
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CRISPR infusion eliminates swelling in those with rare genetic disease
Source: Science Company reports first benefits to patients from injecting the molecular gene-editing tool into the blood.
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‘Papermill alarm’ software flags potentially fake papers
Source: Nature The text-analysis tool could be used to help detect bogus research submitted to journals.
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House Democrat presses bill to encourage more diversity in clinical trials run by NIH
Source: STAT News Rep. Robin Kelly admits that the word "diversity" has scared some of her Republican colleagues away from her effort to improve representation in clinical trials.
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Prestige Hiring Across Academe
Source: Inside Higher Ed Prior research demonstrates insular faculty hiring practices within certain disciplines. A new study finds them across fields. What does that mean for knowledge production?
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This college recruitment tool could be reinforcing bias, study says
Source: Washington Post Students in low-resource school districts are at a disadvantage in receiving college marketing because of the biased design of a recruitment service, reports say.
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