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Centering Patients in Long COVID Research

2 months ago | issues.org | Brian Vastag |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Patient advocates are cautiously optimistic that forthcoming studies will track their concerns and lead to treatments. In 2021, Robert DeRosa sought treatment for crushing fatigue, unexplained pains, loss of teeth, gastrointestinal distress, and other symptoms that had persisted for nearly a year following a COVID-19 infection. His physician, a pulmonologist working at a newly set up long COVID treatment center, told him he was just deconditioned.
Could an ARPA Help Resurrect US Manufacturing?

2 months ago | issues.org | William B. Bonvillian |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

The United States will not regain its leadership in manufacturing by doing more of the same. The country must pursue new paradigms to invoke technological surprise and spur leaps in productivity. The weakness of US manufacturing has become both a social and political issue. Supply chain shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic made the true costs of disinvestment in US manufacturing capability evident to American consumers.
Reconsidering Research Security

Jan 22, 2025 | issues.org | John Gannon |Richard Meserve |Maria T. Zuber |Jay Lloyd

Research security isn’t only about defending against external threats; it also requires ensuring that the United States remains a leader in global innovation by supporting the people and infrastructure that fuel it. The United States’ global leadership in research was built on the foundation of substantial government investments in science and technology (S&T) made during World War II.
Step Into the Free and Infinite Laboratory of the Mind

Jan 13, 2025 | issues.org | Ed Finn |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Science fiction is one of the best tools we have for staging inclusive, engaging conversations about science and technology policy. How can we make better use of it? Aliens! Killer robots! Spaceships! For a long time, I saw science fiction stories in a fairly conventional way—as a touchstone or a starting point for a conversation about a topic such as artificial intelligence (Terminator or I, Robot) or genetic engineering (Gattaca or Frankenstein).
Searching for a New Protopia

Jan 8, 2025 | issues.org | Lisa Margonelli |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Few Americans (aside from Issues readers) had science and technology policy top of mind when they went to the polls on November 5. Even so, the future of one of the most ambitious science policy agendas in recent memory hung in the balance.
“The Currency of Power Is Increasingly Becoming Science and Technology.”

Jan 6, 2025 | issues.org | Jay Lloyd

During a career leading corporate and public research efforts, Darío Gil has been able to assess the strengths and direction of the US science and technology enterprise and develop proposals for shaping its future.
Lessons From Baltimore for Participatory Research

Dec 16, 2024 | issues.org | Jay Lloyd

A pastor and community organizer explains what a landmark Black neuroscience study needed to gain insight, influence, and credibility. In June, a research article in Nature Neuroscience started to tease out why African Americans are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease and strokes and less likely to get Parkinson’s disease.
Will It Scale?

Dec 4, 2024 | issues.org | Omar Al-Ubaydli |John List |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

During the bloodiest battles of the First World War, a young French sergeant named André Maginot was injured in the fighting, earning him a medal for valor. He later rose to the position of French minister of war and became famous for building a series of defensive fortifications along the Franco-German border. The design of the Maginot Line, as it came to be known, was not the result of abstract musings.
The Lives of Lewis Thomas

Nov 25, 2024 | issues.org | Joseph J Fins |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

What researching a biography of the celebrated mid-century physician-humanist reveals about technological capability and human frailty. Back in 1982, as I was preparing to enter Cornell University’s medical school, I was thrilled to learn that the physician- humanist and writer Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) would give us a lecture during our first year. I had read The Lives of a Cell during high school and remembered staring at his photo on the book’s dustcover.
To Boost Energy Innovation, Pull Technologies Into the Market

Nov 12, 2024 | issues.org | David Hart |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Demand-pull policies for energy innovation must operate in parallel with traditional supply-push policies to speedily create a higher-performing, cleaner, more affordable, and more secure energy system. The future of the United States’ energy system is hotly contested.