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The Women Behind the Polio Vaccine (And How, Hopefully, the COVID Vaccine Can Be Different)
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(Feminism)
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... by Rhoda Baer.
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Created on 23 September 2020
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WNBA Players Walk Off In Support of Black Lives Matter Movement
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(Feminism)
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The WNBA’s season kicked off this Saturday by not starting at all. Instead, players from the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty walked off the court during the national anthem in an act of solidarity ...
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Created on 27 July 2020
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Biotech Queen Kavya Kopparapu Is About To Become Your New Hero
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(Living)
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The newest STEM star taking the biotechnology industry by storm isn’t some Silicon Valley bro. She’s a Harvard University sophomore named Kavya Kopparapu and she’s literally changing the world. First ...
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Created on 24 July 2020
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Women In Medicine Are Bringing Time’s Up To The Healthcare Industry
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(Feminism)
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... job. In a study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, 33% of nurses have experienced physical violence and bullying. The National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine told InStyle ...
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Created on 28 February 2019
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Maybe She's Born With It...Maybe It's Cyberneti
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(Living)
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... that will correct vision without contact lenses or glasses. And several patents have been filed for implants (and even tattoos!) that can monitor blood glucose levels in diabetics. Microchips Biotech, ...
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Created on 03 August 2016
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How Yim Soon-Rye Became A Leader Of Korean New Wave: 52 Weeks Of Directors
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(Movies)
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... is also based on real life events. A biotech professor at Seoul National University, Hwang Woo-Suk, gained international recognition in 2004 when he claimed he had successfully cloned human embryonic stem ...
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Created on 28 July 2016
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3 New Male Contraception Options That Go Beyond The Condom
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(Sex)
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With the exception of condoms, birth control is usually the burden of sexually active women. But surveys show that at least half of U.S. men would use a contraceptive themselves, and recent biotech ...
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Created on 15 March 2016
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Karma Comes For The 'Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts' Liar
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(Feminism)
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... on a misdemeanor charge related to purchasing human organs. The two presented themselves as biotechnology representatives in order to get into Planned Parenthood facilities and secretly record videos. ...
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Created on 26 January 2016
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Congress Democrats Requested an Investigation Into the Group Behind the Planned Parenthood “Sting”
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(General)
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... Progress is a group of citizen journalists dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances,” and “We envision a world in which medical practice and biotechnology ally with and serve ...
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Created on 24 July 2015
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Women's Brains Decline Faster Than Men's—But We're Not Sure
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(General)
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It was often thought that, because women live longer than men, it was obvious that they would have Alzheimer’s at a higher rate. However, studies are beginning to show that age and lifespan are not causing ...
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Created on 22 July 2015
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Black Girls Code Helps Women Of Color Break Into The Tech World
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(General)
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... despite expressing interest in STEM fields in higher numbers, black women are less likely than their white counterparts to obtain degrees in those fields. That’s why, as a biotech professional with a degree ...
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Created on 27 February 2015
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12.
Sprout Robot Makes Planning Your Garden Easy
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(Eat Me)
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The more I read about Monsanto, the giant biotechnology company which owns 90% of the United State's genetically modified seeds, the more I want to start paying more attention to the sources of my food. ...
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Created on 05 March 2012