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Combatting the spread of anti-vaccination sentiment
Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Credited with saving millions of lives each year from diseases like smallpox, measles, diphtheria, and polio, one would expect vaccines to be enthusiastically celebrated or, at the very least, widely embraced.
Why is it, then, that we are witnessing the widespread proliferation of anti-vaccination sentiment?
Is memory-decoding technology coming to the courtroom?
What happened? The answer to this simple question will determine the course of a criminal investigation.
To answer these questions requires people to use their memory - their very human, very limited memory.What if neuroscience could help decode memories encoded in human brains so that recalling what happened would be as accurate as possible?
DNA testing for immigration and family reunification
During the past decade, immigrants accounted for 47% of the increase in the US workforce and 70% in Europe. Family reunification is one of the main forms of immigration in many countries. However, in recent times, immigration has become increasingly regulated with many countries encouraging stricter vetting measures. Can the use of DNA testing help achieve a better balance between promoting family reunification and enabling better control of the immigration demands?
Is privacy the price of precision medicine?
Personalized medicine promises much. New initiatives aim to harness technology and genomics to create bespoke medicine, customizing your healthcare so your doctors may one day use these new analytic tools to find the ideal treatment for you.Fewer mistakes, lower costs, and more effective care may result.
But this precision has a price that science and medicine don't acknowledge.
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