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Research on embryo-like structures struggles to win US government funding
Biologists say they need clearer guidelines on funding rules for this nascent field.
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Virginia Hughes
Research on embryo-like structures struggles to win US government funding, @NidhiSubs reports
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Three US Airports Will Start Screening For A Dangerous Chinese Virus
Travelers from Wuhan, China will be screened for the new coronavirus — linked to two deaths overseas — at airports in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
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Virginia Hughes
Three US Airports Will Start Screening For A Dangerous Chinese Virus buzzfeednews.com/article/danver… via @dvergano
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Australia's Leader Called For Crackdown On Environmentalists Before Fires Broke Out
Governments are increasingly casting environmental activism as a new kind of extremism, and using broader powers to punish and marginalize protesters.
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Virginia Hughes
Australia's Leader Called For Crackdown On Environmentalists Before Fires Broke Out buzzfeednews.com/article/lester… via @jlfeder
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Progressive Groups Are Uniting To Call For A Truce Between Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, And Their Allies
A wide network of groups, including top allies of both candidates, are pushing a progressive unity pledge to stop the camps from “fighting each other.”
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Virginia Hughes
Progressive Groups Are Calling For A Truce Between Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancb… via @RyanBrooks
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Elizabeth Warren Said Bernie Sanders Told Her He Didn’t Believe A Woman Could Win In 2020
Sanders had blamed the story on “staff who weren’t in the room [and] are lying about what happened.”
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Virginia Hughes
Elizabeth Warren Said Bernie Sanders Told Her He Didn’t Believe A Woman Could Win In 2020 buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycr… via @rubycramer
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Here's A Running List Of False And Misleading Information About Australia's Bushfires
False and unverified information has been circulating on social media during the bushfire crisis.
Congress Has Launched An Investigation Into The Medical Care Of Immigrant Detainees
The investigation comes more than a week after BuzzFeed News published whistleblower allegations of substandard medical care.
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Virginia Hughes
Congress Has Launched An Investigation Into The Medical Care Of Immigrant Detainees buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda… by @haleaziz, of course
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The Decade That Dismantled Abortion Rights
This year, the battle over abortion rights reached a fever pitch. That’s what this entire decade was building toward.
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Virginia Hughes
The Decade That Dismantled Abortion Rights buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco… via @o_ema
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The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase
Though victory is close, the eradication campaign is on some very fragile ground.
A Child’s Forehead Partially Removed, Four Deaths, The Wrong Medicine: A Secret Report Exposes Health Care For Jailed Immigrants
BuzzFeed News has obtained a memo in which an ICE whistleblower says two immigrants got preventable surgeries and two were given the wrong drugs. Four died — one after getting "grossly negligent" care.
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Virginia Hughes
A Child’s Forehead Partially Removed, Four Deaths, The Wrong Medicine: A Secret Report Exposes Health Care For Jailed Immigrants buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda… via @haleaziz
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10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were The Future Of Medicine. Now They’re A Social Network — And A Data Privacy Mess.
We were offered personalized medicine. Instead, we got Facebook for our DNA.
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Virginia Hughes
"As the decade comes to a close, few of us have discussed our genes with our doctors, but millions of us have uploaded our DNA profiles to online databases...It’s become like Facebook for genes." SO SMART, @paldhous
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Alex Borstein Opened Up About Her Character’s Sexuality On “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
“I think the first person that decides to hold her or kiss her, that might be her first love, and I'm not sure what gender that would be,” Borstein told BuzzFeed News.
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Virginia Hughes
Alex Borstein Opened Up About Her Character’s Sexuality On “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” buzzfeednews.com/article/krysti… via @KrystieLYandoli
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Managing Editor, News Operations
New York
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Virginia Hughes
Come work with our Operations team @BuzzFeedNews! A fast-paced, super-important job
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Can Biology Class Reduce Racism?
When it comes to race, “It’s always like ‘O.K., but now we’re going to start the lesson on peas,’’’ a biology teacher said. A study will test a new approach.
While Everyone In DC Talks About Ukraine, There’s An Actual War Going On
“While they were playing with our aid, I wonder, did they know we were dying out here?”
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Virginia Hughes
“Watching political satire on American TV —when he’s able to get a strong enough signal on the battlefield —is how Stas learned that Trump had frozen $391 million in US security aid meant for the Ukrainian armed forces over the summer.” buzzfeednews.com/article/christ… via @ChristopherJM
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48 Boomers Who Will Make You Say "OK"
These (technical) baby boomers are OK with us.
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Virginia Hughes
48 Boomers Who Will Make You Say "OK" buzzfeednews.com/article/katien… via @katienotopoulos
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Al Sharpton's Organization Has Cancelled A "Both Sides" Vaccine Event
"We said both sides must be heard—we haven’t taken a position yet," the Reverend Al Sharpton said. The event was slated to occur this weekend in Harlem.
Millions Of People Have Watched YouTube Videos On How To Make Potentially Dangerous Vape Oil
After being contacted by BuzzFeed News, the platform took down some of the videos. Vaping-related injuries continue to climb by the day.
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Virginia Hughes
Millions Are Watching YouTube Videos On How To Make Potentially Dangerous Vape Oil buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha… via @stephaniemlee
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The Last Word On Nothing | It’s Ok to Opt Out of Mammograms
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Virginia Hughes
“Breast cancer screening has failed to reduce the incidence of metastatic disease, and it’s unnecessarily turned healthy women into cancer patients” by @cragcrest
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