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By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 2, 2021 | 3:25pm EST Eric Lander, nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks after being nominated by President Joe Biden at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 16, 2021. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - Eric Lander, whom President Joe Biden has nominated to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, has opposed actually editing the genes of hum...

Share This The FINANCIAL -- THE PRESIDENT:  Albert, thank you very much.  Thank you not only for what you do for the — the credit you give me that I really don’t deserve.  This is — this is a case of life and death.  We’re talking about people’s lives. I want you to know that once we beat COVID, we’re going to do everything we can to end cancer as we know it.  I’ve asked Dr. Eric Lander, a renowned Harvard/MIT scientist, to co-lead the Presidential Council of Advisors in Sc...

South Court Auditorium 3:19 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you all.  Dr. Fauci, thanks for your leadership, thanks for being here. Two weeks ago, I spent some time with you and Dr. Francis Collins — excuse me — the Director of the National Institute of Health, at NIH, and gave me a tour of the Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.  And it’s the place where our top scientists spend years researching and developing vaccines and treatments of all kinds of — for all kinds...

Government Executive email Coronavirus Roundup: “Bright Spots” of the Federal Pandemic Response; FDA Addresses COVID Variants Theres a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed. The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service compiled a list of 65 “bright spots” in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus. “Telemedicine expanded to more veterans. Legacy paper processes went digital, giving rise to more effe...

SCOTTISH local authority pensions have more than £1.2 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, green campaigners revealed today. Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) said many councils that have declared a climate emergency have not taken action to end their investments in coal, oil and gas firms. It said that Strathclyde Pension Fund was the worst offender, with more than £508 million invested in polluting companies such as Shell, BP and Exxon, while the Lothian fund had about £165m inve...

http://shet.news/32plk Copied! THE LOCAL branch of the Scottish Greens is calling on Shetland Islands Council (SIC) to divest from fossil fuels ahead of this year’s United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow after an investigation found that around £20 million of its £460 million pension fund is invested in fossil fuel companies. In January last year, Shetland Islands Council, together with 20 other local authorities in Scotland, either ‘recognised’ or â€�...

FOX News contributor debates NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams over the governors pandemic response on The Story This is a rush transcript from "The Story with Martha MacCallum," February 19, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated   MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS CHANNEL ANCHOR: Thank you very much, you guys. Good to see you both Sandra and John. Good afternoon, everybody. Im Martha McCallum on a snowy Friday. And we have a lot of stories breaking this afternoon.   At...

Pfizer Kalamazoo Manufacturing Site Kalamazoo, Michigan 3:24 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Albert, thank you very much. Thank you not only for what you do...

Scientific American Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things The popular term “quantum supremacy,” which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, is uncomfortably reminiscent of “white supremacy” Advertisement In 2012, the quantum physicist John Preskill wrote, “We hope to hasten the day when well controlled quantum systems can perform tasks surpassing what can be done in the classical world.” Less than a decade later, two quantum computing syste...

Julie Heng ’24 is a Crimson Editorial editor. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Last month, in an open letter to his science adviser and nominee for a new cabinet-level science policy position, President Joe Biden asked Eric Lander, a systems biology professor at Harvard Medical School and director of Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute, to urgently consider the growing interplay between science and society. This letter arrives as we are at a juncture in scientific history. Especia...