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...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously Monday to oppose the construction of a Boston University BioSafety Level (BSL) 4 biodefense laboratory, a category of facility intended to house the most dangerous and least understood biological pathogens...
Although the Council vote cannot stop the construction, members said they were concerned that the effects of a pathogen leak would go beyond Boston city limits...
...Ludwig says the scientific literature can become skewed overall toward commercial ends when certain hypotheses ?those favorable to industry - are investigated more often than others, and when scientists only publish their results selectively. Industry scientists say that's nonsense. Greg Miller, executive VP of innovation for National Dairy Council, says sheer volume of results doesn't mean much. "As a scientist I'm more interested in the quality of the research," he says. And the PloS Medicine study looks only at the absolute number of favorable vs. unfavorable results, not at the nature of the research undertaken...
...problem are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors be allowed to kill the sickest infants - which is already legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and urged that they "think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns." At least in Ashley's case, however much the doctors debated the proper "management options," they...
Whether or not the next president is a woman, Harvard Graduate Council president Cheng Zhu says that Harvard’s next chief should possess “a feminine style of leadership...