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Prominent health policy researcher resigns from Dartmouth over plagiarism dispute Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the country’s top health care policy scholars, has resigned from his faculty position at Dartmouth College, after an investigation by the school concluded that he had committed research misconduct. “I am saddened to say that I am resigning from Dartmouth,” Welch wrote in an email to colle

Pan was driven by a desire to cure blindness. In the early 2000s, he imagined that putting a light-sensitive protein into the eye could restore vision in the blind — compensating for the death of rods and cones by making other cells light-sensitive. Related: Light-activated neurons hold bright promise for brain science That was the germ of the idea of optogenetics — taking a protein that converts