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Sep 30, 2025

Evaluating Safety and Security in Biological Research: A Proposed Tool to Assess Dual-Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential

The authors provide the foundations for a decisionmaking tool to assess dual-use research of concern and pathogens with enhanced pandemic potential without hampering U.S. biotechnology innovation.
Research

Sep 26, 2025

Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of Sequencing Newborns’ Genomes: Rapid Literature and Evidence Review

The report reviews ethical, legal, and social issues of newborn genome sequencing, highlighting consent, communication, equity, governance, uncertainty, and public trust as key considerations for policy and programme design.
Research

Sep 10, 2025

Money Matters: How Financing Affects Medicines R&D

The goal of this chapter is to provide a basic understanding of how financing for medicines R&D works, so that non-experts can be better equipped for conversations about how investment in R&D can better meet societal needs.
Research

Aug 27, 2025

Supplemental Items Reduce HCAHPS Response Rates, but Response Rates Do Not Affect HCAHPS Scores: A Randomized Experiment

The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of the 59-item versus 32-item survey on response rates by survey mode and assess whether any reductions in response rates change HCAHPS scores.
Research

Jul 28, 2025

More resilient funding for cancer research in the UK: An option appraisal

This study explores options for how cancer research funding in the UK could be made more resilient. In discussion with Cancer Research UK, an endowment fund was identified as the preferred option.
Expert Insights

Jun 30, 2025

Data and AI-Enabled Biological Design: Risks Related to Biological Training Data and Opportunities for Governance

The authors of this paper assess the link between biological data and the capabilities of artificial intelligence models trained on large volumes of biological data, then recommend strategies to limit such potentially dangerous capabilities.
Research

Jun 11, 2025

Determinants of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the All of Us Research Program

A cross-sectional study of AoU electronic health record and survey data compared characteristics of adult CIH users and nonusers. General linear models estimated factors associated with CIH.
Commentary

May 15, 2025

Silent Speech, Loud Questions: The Dawn of Brain-Computer Communication

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are crossing a historic threshold, allowing human thought to be expressed directly as speech. As BCIs move from labs into everyday life, it's important to consider not just what they can do—but what they should do.
Expert Insights

May 6, 2025

Assessing Cumulative, Meaningful Benefits of Disease-Modifying Therapies Targeting Synucleinopathies: Conference Proceedings and Roadmap for Research

This document summarizes a 2024 workshop on disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) for synucleinopathies (Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multiple system atrophy). Workshop attendees discussed factors that will affect access to DMTs.
Research

Mar 31, 2025

Perceptions of Information Transferred in Review of Systems Forms: A Qualitative Description

ROS forms are inconsistently operationalized and defined, with misunderstandings across both clinicians and the public. Simultaneously, the forms create additional burden across individuals involved in care delivery, including patients and families.
Video

Mar 12, 2025

The Risks and Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Care

RAND authors discuss the use of artificial intelligence in health care and summarize the evidence on the effects of these applications.
Research

Feb 20, 2025

Health Equity Checklist for Research

The health equity checklist provides a practical guide for researchers, community partners, and participants to reflect on inclusivity, cultural relevance, and social justice in health research.

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