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Policy Memo
Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Steps the federal government can take to end the organ transplant wait list.

04.26.20 | 1 min read
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Policy Memo
Creating the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA)

The federal government can directly address the massive market failures at the center of our healthcare enterprise by establishing a new Health Advanced Research Projects Agency.

04.19.20 | 13 min read
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Policy Memo
Mass-Digitizing Biodiversity Collections of the United States

A coordinated effort to mass digitize the physical specimens in U.S. biodiversity collections.

04.06.20 | 1 min read
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Press release
Do You Have #COVID-19 Questions? We Have Answers: Ask a Scientist Launches

Washington, DC, March 18, 2020 Today, the Federation of American Scientists, the Governance Lab at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and the State of New Jersey  Office of Innovation launched a free interactive tool to help answer the public’s questions on COVID-19 virus in English and Spanish.  “Ask a Scientist,” located at covid19.fas.org […]

03.18.20 | 2 min read
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CDC and FDA leaders expect more COVID-19 novel coronavirus testing capacity to be coming online

As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus emerged abroad and here at home, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) devised a diagnostic testing kit and the criteria for who should be tested. Both of CDC’s processes have come under severe scrutiny. The ramp up in US testing capacity for COVID-19 has been sluggish, in large […]

03.06.20 | 4 min read
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US running out of time to brace its public health infrastructure for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus

Last week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee queried healthcare, disease prevention, and biodefense experts during a hearing about the COVID-19 novel coronavirus outbreak. The take-home message delivered by the witnesses was that the US needs to ramp up its preparedness in a hurry so that if COVID-19 outbreaks emerge on our shores, sick Americans […]

02.20.20 | 5 min read
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Ask your Congressman About Science

The Federation of American Scientists has joined 16 prominent scientific and engineering groups to ask all Congressional candidates seven questions on the science and technology policies that affect all of our lives. The November election will be a critical moment for science and technology policy in the United States. Voters must know where the candidates […]

06.20.08 | 1 min read
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