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Throughout his storied career, Eric Lander has led science projects in just about every setting there is: academia at MIT and Harvard Medical School, independent nonprofit research institutions like the …
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An investigation by a special committee of Stanford’s board of trustees into alleged scientific misconduct by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university’s president and a prominent neuroscientist, has involved “hundreds of hours …
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Elenoe “Crew” Smith used to faint at the sight of blood. Still, she knew from a very young age that she wanted to help people living with sickle cell disease. …
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University of Michigan pediatric neurologist Vivian Cheung made a name for herself studying rare genetic diseases, and in 2008 — when she was on the faculty at the University of …
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Like many cardiologists, Manuela Thienel spends most days in the chlorinated, temperature-controlled halls of a large hospital. But one week in February 2019, her work brought her to a snowy …
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The wholly synthetic mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 saved nearly 20 million lives in just their first year of use, according to data published in 2022 by The Lancet. That success …
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A recent high-profile paper suggesting that science is becoming dramatically less disruptive set the academic world abuzz. One interpretation of this finding — though by no means the only one …
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Alberto Ascherio began his career as a young doctor treating tropical diseases in South American rainforests and parts of Africa. Over the next quarter-century, he made his way to what …
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A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The study has …
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