Rethinking Funding for Scientific Innovation
The Arc Institute aims to put science first, by funding its scientific investigators’ salaries and research costs for 8 years.
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The Arc Institute aims to put science first, by funding its scientific investigators’ salaries and research costs for 8 years.
As we look ahead, both current and future pandemics will require tests that give us more granular information about disease.
Science and engineering graduate students’ curricula should include cross-disciplinary studies in intellectual property (IP).
Trade secrets offer a number of benefits for life sciences companies compared to patents, such as theoretical indefinite intellectual property protection.
When science (and the media) moves this quickly, all involved should exercise a greater degree of caution when interpreting research.
How should scientists, policy makers, and governments balance efforts to address the current pandemic with initiatives to prevent the next one?
In academia, many of the scientists who are recognized as inventors on patents see little economic gain from these agreements.
COVID-19 vaccine mandates could offer a potential foothold to increase vaccination for other communicable diseases, such as the influenza virus.
The pandemic has exacerbated existing social inequalities, disproportionately impacting the already marginalized.