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Three-person DNA IVF stops inherited disease—eight healthy babies born in UK first

July 25, 2025 0 Comments Diet and Weight Loss, Eye Care, Fertility, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Public Health, Retail and Services, Scientific Conduct, STEM Education

In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three people—two parents and a female donor. The process, known as pronuclear transfer, was designed to prevent the inheritance of devastating mitochondrial diseases passed down through the mother’s DNA. The early results are highly promising: all the babies are developing normally, and the disease-causing mutations are undetectable or present at levels too low to cause harm. For families once haunted by genetic risk, this science offers more than treatment—it offers transformation.

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Women CEOs judged more harshly than men for corporate ethical failures

October 24, 2019 0 Comments Autism, Bioethics, Consumer Behavior, Consumerism, Ethics, Gender Difference, Racial Issues, Scientific Conduct

People are less likely to support an organization after an ethical failure if the business is led by a woman, according to a new study. However, organizations led by women endure less negative backlash for competence failures than those headed by men.

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Financial hardship in cancer: The role of health insurance literacy

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Diseases and Conditions, Economics, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Privacy Issues, Public Health, Scientific Conduct, Today's Healthcare

A new study links health insurance literacy with medical financial hardship as well as non-medical financial sacrifices among adult cancer survivors in the United States.

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Society is rejecting facts; medical researchers can help

October 16, 2019 0 Comments Depression, Educational Policy, Health Policy, K-12 Education, Medical Education and Training, Public Health Education, Schizophrenia, Scientific Conduct, STEM Education

Anecdotes, fake news and social media have created a skeptical and misinformed public who is rejecting the facts. A commentary says that medical researchers must help the public understand the rigorous process of science and help them to discern an anecdote from peer-reviewed scientific results. The best way to do this? By continuing to ensure integrity, rigor, reproducibility and replication of their science and to earn the public's trust by being morally responsible and completely free of any influences.

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Beyond the 'replication crisis,' does research face an 'inference crisis'?

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Biometric, Consumer Electronics, Dementia, Educational Policy, Engineering, Memory, Psychology, Scientific Conduct, surveillance

For the past decade, social scientists have been unpacking a 'replication crisis' that has revealed how findings of an alarming number of scientific studies are difficult or impossible to repeat. Efforts are underway to improve the reliability of findings, but cognitive psychology researchers say that not enough attention has been paid to the validity of theoretical inferences made from research findings.

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New CEOs can raise their social game to keep their jobs

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Computers and Internet, Education and Employment, Educational Policy, Information Technology, Markets and Finance, Scientific Conduct, STEM Education

A new study shows that two key factors can make freshly appointed CEOs more vulnerable and raise the odds they'll get fired. The job security of a new CEO tends to suffer when the stock market reacts badly or when the previous CEO stays on as board chair, according to the study. But the study found that the new CEO can overcome these challenges with what researchers call ''social influence behaviors.''

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Predicting terror activity before it happens

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Computer Modeling, Energy Policy, Engineering, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematics, Scientific Conduct, Security and Defense, surveillance, Weapons Technology

Data scientist have developed a model that utilizes publicly available data to accurately predict how lethal a terror organization will become in the future based on only its first 10 attacks.

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New study is 'chilling commentary' on future of antibiotics

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biotechnology, Economics, Infectious Diseases, Microbes and More, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Public Health, Scientific Conduct

The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world's most dangerous, drug-resistant 'superbugs,' according to a new analysis.

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Mounting brain organoid research reignites ethical debate

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Bioethics, Brain Injury, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Ethics, Intelligence, neuroscience, Scientific Conduct, World Development

As research involving the transplantation of human 'mini-brains' — known as brain organoids — into animals to study disease continues to expand, so do the ethical debates around the practice. A new article seeks to clarify the abilities of brain organoids and suggests an ethical framework that better defines and contextualizes these organoids and establishes thresholds for their use.

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How to make online recommendations work better

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Consumer Behavior, Educational Policy, encryption, Gender Difference, Information Technology, Marijuana, Scientific Conduct, Spintronics Research, STEM Education

User-based framing is generally better than item-based framing at generating click-throughs, but there are specific situations in which user-based framing is no longer advantageous or even becomes disadvantageous.

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