Sanctions should not apply to biomedical research

Should biomedical research be like Airbnb?

The thesis presented here is that biomedical research is based on the trusted exchange of services. That exchange would be conducted more efficiently if the trusted software platforms to exchange those services, if they exist, were more integrated. While simpler and narrower in scope than the services governing biomedical research, comparison to existing internet-based platforms, like Airbnb, c...

Diagnostics Need Not Apply

ideas themselves are un-patentable "as they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work,"58 useful applications of these tools may be patent-eligible. A claim to a process that uses a natural law must "also contain other elements or a combination of elements, sometimes referred to as an 'inventive concept,' sufficient to ensure that the patent in practice amounts to 55 See supra no...

Analogy does not apply.

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Reply to Fiscella: The phases of biomedical research should be studied to optimize health outcomes.

To Apply or Not to Apply: A Survey Analysis of Grant Writing Costs and Benefits

We surveyed 113 astronomers and 82 psychologists active in applying for federally funded research on their grant-writing history between January, 2009 and November, 2012. We collected demographic data, effort levels, success rates, and perceived non-financial benefits from writing grant proposals. We find that the average proposal takes 116 PI hours and 55 CI hours to write; although time spent...