F.D. Flam: Experimenting on dogs is getting harder to defend

There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...
Union-BulletinOpinion

Commentary: Experimenting on dogs is getting harder to defend

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure ...
Opinion
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-GazetteOpinion

COLUMNIST: Experimenting on dogs is getting harder to defend

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...
The New York Times

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...
GitHub

A Python library that provides tools to acquire, manage, and preprocess scientific data in the Sun (NeuroAI) lab.

This library functions as the central hub for collecting and preprocessing the data for all current and future projects in the Sun lab. To do so, it exposes the API to interface with all data ...
Frontiers

Validating an updated protocol for the novel object recognition task in young pigs

The objective of this study was to validate equipment and procedures involved in implementing the novel object recognition (NOR) paradigm with young pigs. Two experiments were run with the intent of ...
yalelawjournal

Lawyers’ Monopoly and the Promises of AI

abstract. Access to justice in American civil courts won’t come through free or pro bono lawyers. To drive down costs, we need to loosen bar regulation and streamline procedures. And we should embrace ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Bhatti, A.U. (2006) Statistical Procedures for Analysis of Agriculture Research Experiments. NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: This study evaluated the genetic and agronomic parameter estimates of maize under different nitrogen rates. The trial was established at the Njala Agricultural Research Centre experimental ...
marktechpost

Researchers from Genentech and Stanford University Develop an Iterative Perturb-seq Procedure Leveraging Machine Learning for Efficient Design of Perturbation Experiments

Basic information about gene and cell function is revealed by the expression response of a cell to a genetic disturbance. Using a readout of the expression response to a perturbation using single-cell ...
GitHub

zero-shot-classifiers-for-conceptual-engineering

Experiments using prompt programming of large language models to implement targets of conceptual engineering as zero-shot chain-of-thought classifiers. A large language model (LLM) is a probabilistic ...
SciTech Daily

Does Free Will Exist? New Study Challenges Classic Libet Experiments

Neuroscientists from HSE University have questioned the conclusions of famous studies, primarily those by Benjamin Libet, that challenge the existence of free will. Libet’s experiments in the 1970s ...