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International Cooperation & Assistance in the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention: Strengthening BWC Assurance through Article X. 《生物与毒素武器公约》的国际合作与援助：通过第十条加强对《禁止生物武器公约》的保证。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2026.10021

Matthew P Shearer, Rachel A Vahey, Alanna S Fogarty, Christina M Potter, Gigi Kwik Gronvall

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Understanding biosafety practitioner perspectives. 理解生物安全从业者的观点。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.10014

David R Gillum, Christine Knight, Kathleen M Vogel

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The effect of acute stress response on conspiracy theory beliefs. 急性应激反应对阴谋论信念的影响。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2024.16

Vojtech Pisl, Turkay Nefes, Benjamin Simsa, Daniela Kestlerova, Pavel Kubíček, Vojtech Linka, Tatana Martynova, Rachel Sajdlova, David Sejrek, Jan Vevera

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Moral equality and reprogenetic autonomy in the genomic era. 基因组时代的道德平等与生殖自主权。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2024.12

Ozan Gurcan

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Differential brain activations between Democrats and Republicans when considering food purchases. 在考虑购买食物时，民主党人和共和党人大脑活动的差异。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.2

Amanda S Bruce, John M Crespi, Dermot J Hayes, Angelos Lagoudakis, Jayson L Lusk, Darren M Schreiber, Qianrong Wu

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Motivated political reasoning: Testing the emotion regulation account in the case of perceptual divides over politically relevant facts. 动机性政治推理：在与政治相关的事实存在知觉分歧的情况下，测试情绪调节账户。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.10001

Filip Kiil

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Strategic policy options to improve quality and productivity of biomedical research. 提高生物医学研究质量和生产力的战略政策选择。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2024.10

E Andrew Balas, Gianluca De Leo, Kelly B Shaw

{"title":"Strategic policy options to improve quality and productivity of biomedical research.","authors":"E Andrew Balas, Gianluca De Leo, Kelly B Shaw","doi":"10.1017/pls.2024.10","DOIUrl":"10.1017/pls.2024.10","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging societal expectations from biomedical research and intensifying international scientific competition are becoming existential matters. Based on a review of pertinent evidence, this article analyzes challenges and formulates public policy recommendations for improving productivity and impact of life sciences. Critical risks include widespread quality defects of research, particularly non-reproducible results, and narrow access to scientifically sound information giving advantage to health misinformation. In funding life sciences, the simultaneous shift to nondemocratic societies is an added challenge. Simply spending more on research will not be enough in the global competition. Considering the pacesetter role of the federal government, five national policy recommendations are put forward: (i) funding projects with comprehensive expectations of reproducibility; (ii) public-private partnerships for contemporaneous quality support in laboratories; (iii) making research institutions accountable for quality control; (iv) supporting new quality filtering standards for scientific journals and repositories, and (v) establishing a new network of centers for scientific health communications.","PeriodicalId":35901,"journal":{"name":"Politics and the Life Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"108-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11968251/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142629644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Affective (in)attention: Using physiology to understand media selection. 情感注意：用生理学来理解媒介选择。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.5

Mia Carbone

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Diplomacy disrupted: A mixed-methods analysis of Russian disinformation at the Ninth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. 外交中断：在生物和毒素武器公约第九次审查会议上对俄罗斯虚假信息的混合方法分析。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.3

Annie E Sundelson, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Gary Ackerman, Rupali Limaye, Crystal Watson, Tara Kirk Sell

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Techno-natalism: Geopolitical and socioeconomic implications of emerging reproductive technologies in a world of sub-replacement fertility. 技术自然主义：在生育率低于更替水平的世界中，新兴生殖技术的地缘政治和社会经济影响。

Politics and the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/pls.2025.10005

Craig James Willy, Filipe Nobre Faria

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