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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Saturday August 10, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Horb Receives Renewal Funding for Xenopus Mutant Resource at MBL
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, issued the following news: Marko Horb, MBL senior scientist and director of the National Xenopus Resource (NXR) at MBL, has received R24 renewal funding from the National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs. Research using the amphibian Xenopus, because of unique advantages as an experimental system, has  more

Reproductive Equity Now: Governor Healey Signs Parentage Act, Ensuring Equality for All Families in Massachusetts
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 10 -- Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that says it advances reproductive justice and eliminates barriers to safe and legal abortion care, issued the following news release: Governor Maura Healey signed an Act to ensure legal parentage equality, which updates the state's parentage laws for the first time in 40 years to make them more inclusive. This historic legislation ensures the rights and protections for parents who use surrogacy, in-vitro fertilization a  more