238 Ebooks by Board on Life Sciences
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: 2007 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€24.88
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications: New Science of Metagenomics
Although we can’t usually see them, microbes are essential for every part of human life — indeed all life on Earth. The emerging field of metagenomics offers a new way of exploring the microbial …
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€46.45
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the …
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€38.77
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Protecting Building Occupants and Operations from Biological and Chemical Airborne Threats
Protecting buildings and their occupants from biological and chemical attacks to ensure continuous building operations is seen as an urgent need in the Department of Defense, given recent …
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€42.23
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Framework for Assessing the Health Hazard Posed by Bioaerosols
Biological warfare agent (BWA) detectors are designed to provide alerts to military personnel of the presence of dangerous biological agents. Detecting such agents promptly makes it possible to …
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€30.07
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Interventions That Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers
Minority groups are severely underrepresented in the scientific workforce. To encourage minorities to pursue careers in research, a variety of "intervention programs" have been created at …
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€24.91
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century: Role of Theory in Advancing 21st-Century Biology
Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists’ theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, …
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€51.97
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment
The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand the health effects of exposures to toxicants in the environment. At the request of the National …
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€71.12
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology
Life on Earth would be impossible without plants. Humans rely on plants for most clothing, furniture, food, as well as for many pharmaceuticals and other products. Plant genome sciences are essential …
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€45.10
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems
A biological warfare agent (BWA) is a microorganism, or a toxin derived from a living organism, that causes disease in humans, plants, or animals or that causes the deterioration of material. The …
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€17.44
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Inspired by Biology
Scientists have long desired to create synthetic systems that function with the precision and efficiency of biological systems. Using new techniques, researchers are now uncovering principles that …
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€68.77
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment
The mission of Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change, the book published in December 2008, is to independently and scientifically review the methodology that …
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€46.01
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology
Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative …
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€24.88
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: 2008 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€24.92
American Association for the Advancement of Science & Board on Life Sciences: Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risks–that the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biotechnology research could be misused to create …
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€100.37
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
The world’s climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes are already affecting many …
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€30.16
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World
During the next ten years, colleges of agriculture will be challenged to transform their role in higher education and their relationship to the evolving global food and agricultural enterprise. If …
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€52.01
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Sciences in the 21st Century: Role of Theory in Advancing 21st-Century Biology
Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists’ theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, …
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€73.39
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology
Life on Earth would be impossible without plants. Humans rely on plants for most clothing, furniture, food, as well as for many pharmaceuticals and other products. Plant genome sciences are essential …
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€65.20
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems
A biological warfare agent (BWA) is a microorganism, or a toxin derived from a living organism, that causes disease in humans, plants, or animals or that causes the deterioration of material. The …
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€25.62
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Inspired by Biology
Scientists have long desired to create synthetic systems that function with the precision and efficiency of biological systems. Using new techniques, researchers are now uncovering principles that …
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€72.32
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Health Sciences Policy: BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top priority. In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security …
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€58.81
American Association for the Advancement of Science & Board on Life Sciences: Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risks–that the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biotechnology research could be misused to create …
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€106.13
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution: New Biology for the 21st Century
Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century …
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€34.69
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Laboratory Security and Personnel Reliability Assurance Systems for Laboratories Conducting Research on Biological Select Agents and Toxins: Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins
The effort to understand and combat infectious diseases has, during the centuries, produced many key advances in science and medicine–including the development of vaccines, drugs, and other …
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€36.98
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences
Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing number of scientists are addressing problems lying at …
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€37.25
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution: New Biology for the 21st Century
Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century …
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€49.81
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Laboratory Security and Personnel Reliability Assurance Systems for Laboratories Conducting Research on Biological Select Agents and Toxins: Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins
The effort to understand and combat infectious diseases has, during the centuries, produced many key advances in science and medicine–including the development of vaccines, drugs, and other …
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€54.10
Board on Life Sciences & Committee to Review the Health and Safety Risks of High-Biocontainment Laboratories at Fort Detrick: Evaluation of the Health and Safety Risks of the New USAMRIID High-Containment Facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, is designed to handle pathogens that cause serious or potentially lethal diseases, which require the research …
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€24.86
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences
Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing number of scientists are addressing problems lying at …
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€54.29
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Considerations for Ensuring Safety and Efficacy of Vaccines and Therapeutic Proteins Manufactured by Using Platform Approaches
A major goal of the US Department of Defense (DOD) Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) is to develop countermeasures that will protect military personnel against bioweapons, …
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€17.34
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Final Report of the National Academies’ Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee and 2010 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€24.88
Board on Life Sciences & Committee to Review the Health and Safety Risks of High-Biocontainment Laboratories at Fort Detrick: Evaluation of the Health and Safety Risks of the New USAMRIID High-Containment Facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, is designed to handle pathogens that cause serious or potentially lethal diseases, which require the research …
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€36.50
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Final Report of the National Academies’ Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee and 2010 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€36.16
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Education on Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences
The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on the particular security issues related to research …
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€29.66
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Scientific Milestones for the Development of a Gene Sequence-Based Classification System for the Oversight of Select Agents: Sequence-Based Classification of Select Agents
Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi. However, natural variation and intentional genetic modification …
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€59.51
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Implementing the New Biology
As the second decade of the 21st century begins, the challenge of how to feed a growing world population and provide sustainable, affordable energy to fulfill daily needs, while also improving human …
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€25.05
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they …
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€33.21
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security’s Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Congress requested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) produce a site-specific biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment (SSRA) of the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility …
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€41.46
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Scientific Milestones for the Development of a Gene Sequence-Based Classification System for the Oversight of Select Agents: Sequence-Based Classification of Select Agents
Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi. However, natural variation and intentional genetic modification …
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€82.84
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Status of Pollinators in North America
Pollinators–insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction–are an essential part of natural and agricultural …
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€90.44
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean Is Safe?: Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack
The anthrax attacks in fall 2001 spurred an extensive and costly decontamination effort where many decisions had to be made about which sites required cleanup, what method to use, how to determine …
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€60.44
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Bridges to Independence: Identifying Opportunities for and Challenges to Fostering the Independence of Young Investigators in the Life Sciences: Bridges to Independence
A rising median age at which Ph Ds receive their first research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the factors forcing academic biomedical researchers to spend longer periods …
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€54.75
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics
In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to the past geological record"which includes fossils, sediment and ice cores, and tree rings. …
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€68.87
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Genomics Databases for Bioterrorism Threat Agents: Seeking Security
Within the last 30 years, the genomes of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to bacteria, to humans, have been sequenced or partially sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to …
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€25.61
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Indicators for Waterborne Pathogens: Indicators for Waterborne Pathogens
Recent and forecasted advances in microbiology, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry have made it timely to reassess the current paradigm of relying predominantly or exclusively on traditional …
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€90.19
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods
Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified …
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€58.83
Board on Life Sciences & Institute of Medicine: Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures
In recent years, substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and other medical interventions against biological agents that could be used in bioterrorist attacks against …
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€54.72
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the National Ecological Observatory Network: Neon
The book endorses the National Science Foundation’s concept of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for providing a nationwide network of facilities and infrastructure for ecological …
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€54.22
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health
The report says that important organizational changes are needed at the National Institutes of Health to ensure the agency meets future challenges effectively. In particular, the report advises NIH …
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€64.81
Board on Life Sciences & Bridget K. B. Avila: Integrating Research and Education
The workshop summary provides guidance for researchers applying to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding. New NSF guidelines require applications to address the "broader impact" …
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€36.47
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Sciences: Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials
Biologists communicate to the research community and document their scientific accomplishments by publishing in scholarly journals. This report explores the responsibilities of authors to share data, …
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€67.77
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: National Plant Genome Initiative
The National Plant Genome Initiative was launched in 1998 as a long-term project to explore DNA structure and function in plants so that useful properties of plants can be understood, improved, and …
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€57.31
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century: BIO2010
Biological sciences have been revolutionized, not only in the way research is conducted — with the introduction of techniques such as recombinant DNA and digital technology — but also in how …
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€49.74
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Exploring Horizons for Domestic Animal Genomics
Recognizing the important contributions that genomic analysis can make to agriculture, production and companion animal science, evolutionary biology, and human health with respect to the creation of …
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€56.91
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Life in the Universe
The past decade has seen a remarkable revolution in genomic research, the discoveries of extreme environments in which organisms can live and even flourish on Earth, the identification of past and …
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€57.36
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Animal Biotechnology
Genetic-based animal biotechnology has produced new food and pharmaceutical products and promises many more advances to benefit humankind. These exciting prospects are accompanied by considerable …
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€58.81
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Marine Biotechnology: Biomedical Applications of Marine Natural Products: Marine Biotechnology in the Twenty-First Century
Dramatic developments in understanding the fundamental underpinnings of life have provided exciting opportunities to make marine bioproducts an important part of the U.S. economy. Several marine …
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€54.64
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning
Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the …
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€58.73
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the …
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€36.18
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests
Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive can often cause problems. They cost more than $100 billion per year in crop and timber losses plus …
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€70.40
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health: Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
Recent scientific breakthroughs, celebrity patient advocates, and conflicting religious beliefs have come together to bring the state of stem cell research"specifically embryonic stem cell …
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€48.28
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law
<p>On August 16, 2000, the Board on Life Sciences held a forum on "Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: The Impact of Emerging Genomic Information." The purpose of …
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€57.79
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Framework for Assessing the Health Hazard Posed by Bioaerosols
Biological warfare agent (BWA) detectors are designed to provide alerts to military personnel of the presence of dangerous biological agents. Detecting such agents promptly makes it possible to …
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€43.43
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology
Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative …
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€36.45
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment
The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand the health effects of exposures to toxicants in the environment. At the request of the National …
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€98.65
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Protecting Building Occupants and Operations from Biological and Chemical Airborne Threats
Protecting buildings and their occupants from biological and chemical attacks to ensure continuous building operations is seen as an urgent need in the Department of Defense, given recent …
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€60.29
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the …
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€54.58
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on …
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€49.70
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research
It is widely understood that stem cell treatments have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Because of this potential, in 2004 California voters approved Proposition 71 to set up a 10-year, $3 …
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€49.72
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Interventions That Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers
Minority groups are severely underrepresented in the scientific workforce. To encourage minorities to pursue careers in research, a variety of "intervention programs" have been created at …
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€36.18
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Validation of Toxicogenomic Technologies
Beginning in the early 1980s, new technologies, began to permit evaluation of the expression of individual genes. Recent technological advances have expanded those evaluations to permit the …
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€36.20
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: Immunomodulation: Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World
Humans coexist with millions of harmless microorganisms, but emerging diseases, resistance to antibiotics, and the threat of bioterrorism are forcing scientists to look for new ways to confront the …
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€48.32
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program: Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promotes scientific and technological innovation to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. Recognizing the potential of …
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€46.73
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Path to Effective Recovering of DNA from Formalin-Fixed Biological Samples in Natural History Collections
Museums catalogue our knowledge of the Earth’s biodiversity, and their collections represent many decades of work by experts. Access to DNA sequence information in archival specimens would greatly …
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€35.90
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Animal Models for Testing Interventions Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents: Overcoming Challenges to Develop Countermeasures Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) gives the highest priority to developing countermeasures against bioterrorism agents that are highly infective when dispersed in …
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€36.21
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Development of a Polio Antiviral and Its Potential Role in Global Poliomyelitis Eradication: Exploring the Role of Antiviral Drugs in the Eradication of Polio
Exploring the Role of Antiviral Drugs in the Eradication of Polio: Workshop Report, is a report of a workshop in which experts evaluated whether an antiviral drug against poliovirus would be helpful …
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€36.47
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Application of Toxicogenomics to Cross-Species Extrapolation
Some of what we know about the health effects of exposure to chemicals from food, drugs, and the environment come from studies of occupational, inadvertent, or accident-related exposures. When there …
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€36.06
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants: Toxicogenomic Technologies and Risk Assessment of Environmental Carcinogens
Toxicogenomics is a discipline that combines expertise in toxicology, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental health to help understand the response of living organisms to stressful …
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€36.19
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the …
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€36.45
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts
Toxicogenomics, the study of how genomes respond to exposure to toxicants, may ultimately hold the promise of detecting changes in the expression of a person’s genes if he or she is exposed to these …
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€36.42
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research
This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a …
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€50.15
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: 2008 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€36.20
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Since 1998, the volume of research being conducted using human embryonic stem (h ES) cells has expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such …
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€58.79
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment
The mission of Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change, the book published in December 2008, is to independently and scientifically review the methodology that …
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€65.87
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications: New Science of Metagenomics
Although we can’t usually see them, microbes are essential for every part of human life — indeed all life on Earth. The emerging field of metagenomics offers a new way of exploring the microbial …
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€66.71
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: 2007 Amendments to the National Academies’ Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of …
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€36.18
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Education on Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences
The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on the particular security issues related to research …
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€42.21
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they …
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€48.57
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Implementing the New Biology
As the second decade of the 21st century begins, the challenge of how to feed a growing world population and provide sustainable, affordable energy to fulfill daily needs, while also improving human …
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€36.14
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Bacillus anthracis Mailings: Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters (PDF
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent through the U.S. mail. Between October 4 and …
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€56.59
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Health Sciences Policy: BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top priority. In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security …
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€83.65
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Special Immunizations Program for Laboratory Personnel Engaged in Research on Countermeasures for Select Agents: Protecting the Frontline in Biodefense Research
The U.S. Army’s Special Immunizations Program is an important component of an overall biosafety program for laboratory workers at risk of exposure to hazardous pathogens. The program provides …
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€45.23
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Special Immunizations Program for Laboratory Personnel Engaged in Research on Countermeasures for Select Agents: Protecting the Frontline in Biodefense Research
The U.S. Army’s Special Immunizations Program is an important component of an overall biosafety program for laboratory workers at risk of exposure to hazardous pathogens. The program provides …
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€48.21
Board on Life Sciences & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Life Sciences and Related Fields
During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the biosecurity implications of developments in the life …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Life Sciences and Related Fields
During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the biosecurity implications of developments in the life …
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€50.90
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Bacillus anthracis Mailings: Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters (ePU
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent through the U.S. mail. Between October 4 and …
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€59.83
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, …
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€3.76
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, …
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€55.81
Bibliotheca Alexandrina & Board on Life Sciences: Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential
In many countries, colleges and universities are where the majority of innovative research is done; in all cases, they are where future scientists receive both their initial training and their …
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€3.76
Bibliotheca Alexandrina & Board on Life Sciences: Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential
In many countries, colleges and universities are where the majority of innovative research is done; in all cases, they are where future scientists receive both their initial training and their …
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€36.14
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease: Toward Precision Medicine
Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as-yet-untapped opportunities to use this data to …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on A Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease: Toward Precision Medicine
Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as-yet-untapped opportunities to use this data to …
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€55.84
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories
During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories
During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges …
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€55.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Synthetic biology — unlike any research discipline that precedes it — has the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of working with living …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Synthetic biology — unlike any research discipline that precedes it — has the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of working with living …
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€45.59
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Life Sciences: Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape
The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit. Based on a …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Thinking Evolutionarily
Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution through natural selection, the topic is often …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Thinking Evolutionarily
Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution through natural selection, the topic is often …
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€43.41
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the …
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€3.80
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the …
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€48.66
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Transforming Glycoscience
A new focus on glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of sugars, promises great advances in areas as diverse as medicine, energy generation, and materials science, this …
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€3.73
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Transforming Glycoscience
A new focus on glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of sugars, promises great advances in areas as diverse as medicine, energy generation, and materials science, this …
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€54.31
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Meeting Critical Laboratory Needs for Animal Agriculture
Outbreaks of animal disease can have catastrophic repercussions for animal agriculture, the food supply, and public health. Rapid detection, diagnosis and response, as well as development of new …
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€3.76
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Meeting Critical Laboratory Needs for Animal Agriculture
Outbreaks of animal disease can have catastrophic repercussions for animal agriculture, the food supply, and public health. Rapid detection, diagnosis and response, as well as development of new …
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€56.16
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Determining Core Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology
The goal of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (Do D’s) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) is to provide support and world-class capabilities enabling he U.S. Armed Forces to fight and win …
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€3.76
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Determining Core Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology
The goal of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (Do D’s) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) is to provide support and world-class capabilities enabling he U.S. Armed Forces to fight and win …
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€54.40
Board on Global Health & Board on Life Sciences: Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mammalian transmissibility of a lethal H5N1 avian …
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€3.77
Board on Global Health & Board on Life Sciences: Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mammalian transmissibility of a lethal H5N1 avian …
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€48.24
Bibliotheca Alexandrina & Board on Life Sciences: Developing Capacities for Teaching Responsible Science in the MENA Region
Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globe-and with it comes concerns about the unintended impacts of …
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€3.78
Bibliotheca Alexandrina & Board on Life Sciences: Developing Capacities for Teaching Responsible Science in the MENA Region
Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globe-and with it comes concerns about the unintended impacts of …
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€54.25
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch
The Bio Watch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elements–sampling, analysis, and response–each coordinated by different agencies. The …
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€3.78
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch
The Bio Watch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elements–sampling, analysis, and response–each coordinated by different agencies. The …
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€82.96
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies That Are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security (P
Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies That Are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible: Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security (e
Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing …
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€75.91
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Key Challenge Areas for Convergence and Health: Convergence
Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key strategy to tackle complex challenges and achieve new …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Key Challenge Areas for Convergence and Health: Convergence
Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key strategy to tackle complex challenges and achieve new …
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€53.92
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Sustainable Infrastructures for Life Science Communication
Advances in the life sciences – from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities – have profound implications for the well-being of society and the natural …
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€3.80
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Sustainable Infrastructures for Life Science Communication
Advances in the life sciences – from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities – have profound implications for the well-being of society and the natural …
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€48.63
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Science Needs for Microbial Forensics: Developing an Initial International Roadmap: Science Needs for Microbial Forensics
Microbial forensics is a scientific discipline dedicated to analyzing evidence from a bioterrorism act, biocrime, or inadvertent microorganism or toxin release for attribution purposes. This emerging …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Science Needs for Microbial Forensics: Developing an Initial International Roadmap: Science Needs for Microbial Forensics
Microbial forensics is a scientific discipline dedicated to analyzing evidence from a bioterrorism act, biocrime, or inadvertent microorganism or toxin release for attribution purposes. This emerging …
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€67.87
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Stem Cell Therapies
Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting the body’s intrinsic repair mechanisms, stem cells …
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€3.76
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Stem Cell Therapies
Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting the body’s intrinsic repair mechanisms, stem cells …
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€48.57
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century
For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. They are centers of research, conservation, education, …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of Field Stations and Marine Laboratories in the 21st Century
For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. They are centers of research, conservation, education, …
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€56.23
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Board on Life Sciences: Can Earth’s and Society’s Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?
The Earth’s population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year …
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€3.76
Board on Environmental Change and Society & Board on Life Sciences: Can Earth’s and Society’s Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?
The Earth’s population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6 billion people by the year …
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€48.51
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Industrialization of Biology
The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century – from Watson and Crick’s elucidation of the structure of DNA to today’s astonishing, rapid progress in the field of synthetic biology – …
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€3.76
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Industrialization of Biology
The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century – from Watson and Crick’s elucidation of the structure of DNA to today’s astonishing, rapid progress in the field of synthetic biology – …
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€71.86
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: BioWatch PCR Assays
Bio Watch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk pathogenic microorganisms. It relies on a network of …
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€3.79
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: BioWatch PCR Assays
Bio Watch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk pathogenic microorganisms. It relies on a network of …
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€63.39
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the …
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€3.80
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the …
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€54.40
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Modeling the Health Risks of Climate Change
Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Modeling the Health Risks of Climate Change
Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, …
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€48.26
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms
The National Research Council’s Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, DC to explore the public interfaces between …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Public Engagement on Genetically Modified Organisms
The National Research Council’s Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, DC to explore the public interfaces between …
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€54.25
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense
The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed personnel. There are over 84, 000 registered …
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€3.73
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense
The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed personnel. There are over 84, 000 registered …
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€71.26
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Trust and Confidence at the Interfaces of the Life Sciences and Society
Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how science can be used to address such societal concerns …
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€3.79
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Trust and Confidence at the Interfaces of the Life Sciences and Society
Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how science can be used to address such societal concerns …
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€56.27
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Gene Drive Research in Non-Human Organisms: Recommendations for Responsible Conduct: Gene Drives on the Horizon
Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges, including the reduction of poverty and …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Gene Drive Research in Non-Human Organisms: Recommendations for Responsible Conduct: Gene Drives on the Horizon
Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges, including the reduction of poverty and …
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€99.18
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Gain-of-Function Research
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) …
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€3.80
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Gain-of-Function Research
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) …
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€72.95
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Microbiomes of the Built Environment
Peoples desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans, and it is estimated …
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€3.76
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Microbiomes of the Built Environment
Peoples desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans, and it is estimated …
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€83.74
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology: Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology
Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously …
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€3.76
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology: Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology
Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously …
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€90.51
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students
Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own career success. There are many ongoing efforts to …
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€3.77
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Science Education: Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students
Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own career success. There are many ongoing efforts to …
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€82.99
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. Synthetic biology, which …
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€3.76
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. Synthetic biology, which …
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€97.99
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk
A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role of the human microbiome in maintaining human health …
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€3.76
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Environmental Chemicals, the Human Microbiome, and Health Risk
A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role of the human microbiome in maintaining human health …
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€67.77
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Strategies for Effective Improvements to the BioWatch System
Bio Watch is the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHSs) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positioned strategically across the country to continuously …
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€3.79
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Strategies for Effective Improvements to the BioWatch System
Bio Watch is the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHSs) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positioned strategically across the country to continuously …
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€82.91
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and …
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€82.84
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for …
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€3.79
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for …
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€56.21
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Governance of Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environment, and economic development; some of the benefits …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Governance of Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environment, and economic development; some of the benefits …
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€68.00
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs: Research Review of Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result of numerous …
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€3.80
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs: Research Review of Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result of numerous …
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€82.38
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on developing norms …
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€3.80
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on developing norms …
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€74.48
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Evaluating the Taxonomic Status of the Mexican Gray Wolf and the Red Wolf
Scientists strive to develop clear rules for naming and grouping living organisms. But taxonomy, the scientific study of biological classification and evolution, is often highly debated. Members of a …
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€3.76
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Evaluating the Taxonomic Status of the Mexican Gray Wolf and the Red Wolf
Scientists strive to develop clear rules for naming and grouping living organisms. But taxonomy, the scientific study of biological classification and evolution, is often highly debated. Members of a …
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€82.91
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Northern Latitude Vegetation Greening and Browning
Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends, but they have also identified areas of browning or shifts between …
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€3.76
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Understanding Northern Latitude Vegetation Greening and Browning
Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends, but they have also identified areas of browning or shifts between …
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€22.60
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Exploring Horizons for Domestic Animal Genomics
Recognizing the important contributions that genomic analysis can make to agriculture, production and companion animal science, evolutionary biology, and human health with respect to the creation of …
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€40.76
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Animal Biotechnology
Genetic-based animal biotechnology has produced new food and pharmaceutical products and promises many more advances to benefit humankind. These exciting prospects are accompanied by considerable …
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€40.71
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: National Plant Genome Initiative
The National Plant Genome Initiative was launched in 1998 as a long-term project to explore DNA structure and function in plants so that useful properties of plants can be understood, improved, and …
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€40.94
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century: BIO2010
Biological sciences have been revolutionized, not only in the way research is conducted — with the introduction of techniques such as recombinant DNA and digital technology — but also in how …
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€34.68
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research
This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a …
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€35.16
Board on Life Sciences & Bridget K. B. Avila: Integrating Research and Education
The workshop summary provides guidance for researchers applying to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding. New NSF guidelines require applications to address the "broader impact" …
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€24.86
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Marine Biotechnology: Biomedical Applications of Marine Natural Products: Marine Biotechnology in the Twenty-First Century
Dramatic developments in understanding the fundamental underpinnings of life have provided exciting opportunities to make marine bioproducts an important part of the U.S. economy. Several marine …
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€38.45
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests
Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive can often cause problems. They cost more than $100 billion per year in crop and timber losses plus …
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€50.17
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the …
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€25.12
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health: Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
Recent scientific breakthroughs, celebrity patient advocates, and conflicting religious beliefs have come together to bring the state of stem cell research"specifically embryonic stem cell …
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€23.35
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning
Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the …
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€40.45
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Life in the Universe
The past decade has seen a remarkable revolution in genomic research, the discoveries of extreme environments in which organisms can live and even flourish on Earth, the identification of past and …
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€40.72
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Sciences: Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials
Biologists communicate to the research community and document their scientific accomplishments by publishing in scholarly journals. This report explores the responsibilities of authors to share data, …
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€48.27
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law
<p>On August 16, 2000, the Board on Life Sciences held a forum on "Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: The Impact of Emerging Genomic Information." The purpose of …
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€41.02
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health
The report says that important organizational changes are needed at the National Institutes of Health to ensure the agency meets future challenges effectively. In particular, the report advises NIH …
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€45.55
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the National Ecological Observatory Network: Neon
The book endorses the National Science Foundation’s concept of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for providing a nationwide network of facilities and infrastructure for ecological …
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€38.46
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) have been under development for more than 20 years while GE crops have been grown commercially during the last decade. During this time, a number of questions …
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€49.77
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Indicators for Waterborne Pathogens: Indicators for Waterborne Pathogens
Recent and forecasted advances in microbiology, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry have made it timely to reassess the current paradigm of relying predominantly or exclusively on traditional …
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€64.11
Board on Life Sciences & Institute of Medicine: Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures
In recent years, substantial efforts have been initiated to develop new drugs, vaccines, and other medical interventions against biological agents that could be used in bioterrorist attacks against …
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€37.27
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Promise and Challenges in Systems Microbiology
Microbiologists have become interested in applying systems biology to understand and harness complex biological processes in microbial communities. A systems approach, which attempts to use …
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€17.48
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of the Dietary Supplements: Dietary Supplements
The growing consumer interest in health and fitness has expanded the market for a wide range of products, from yoga mats to the multiple dietary supplements now on the market. Supplements are …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods
Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Genomics Databases for Bioterrorism Threat Agents: Seeking Security
Within the last 30 years, the genomes of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to bacteria, to humans, have been sequenced or partially sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to …
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€24.90
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts
Toxicogenomics, the study of how genomes respond to exposure to toxicants, may ultimately hold the promise of detecting changes in the expression of a person’s genes if he or she is exposed to these …
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Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics
In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to the past geological record"which includes fossils, sediment and ice cores, and tree rings. …
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€49.01
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Bridges to Independence: Identifying Opportunities for and Challenges to Fostering the Independence of Young Investigators in the Life Sciences: Bridges to Independence
A rising median age at which Ph Ds receive their first research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is among the factors forcing academic biomedical researchers to spend longer periods …
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€36.82
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Since 1998, the volume of research being conducted using human embryonic stem (h ES) cells has expanded primarily using private funds because of restrictions on the use of federal funds for such …
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€47.15
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the …
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€25.06
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean Is Safe?: Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack
The anthrax attacks in fall 2001 spurred an extensive and costly decontamination effort where many decisions had to be made about which sites required cleanup, what method to use, how to determine …
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€42.21
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants: Toxicogenomic Technologies and Risk Assessment of Environmental Carcinogens
Toxicogenomics is a discipline that combines expertise in toxicology, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental health to help understand the response of living organisms to stressful …
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€24.80
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on New Directions in the Study of Antimicrobial Therapeutics: Immunomodulation: Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World
Humans coexist with millions of harmless microorganisms, but emerging diseases, resistance to antibiotics, and the threat of bioterrorism are forcing scientists to look for new ways to confront the …
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€33.14
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Application of Toxicogenomics to Cross-Species Extrapolation
Some of what we know about the health effects of exposure to chemicals from food, drugs, and the environment come from studies of occupational, inadvertent, or accident-related exposures. When there …
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€25.18
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program: Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promotes scientific and technological innovation to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. Recognizing the potential of …
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€32.81
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Development of a Polio Antiviral and Its Potential Role in Global Poliomyelitis Eradication: Exploring the Role of Antiviral Drugs in the Eradication of Polio
Exploring the Role of Antiviral Drugs in the Eradication of Polio: Workshop Report, is a report of a workshop in which experts evaluated whether an antiviral drug against poliovirus would be helpful …
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€25.18
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Animal Models for Testing Interventions Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents: Overcoming Challenges to Develop Countermeasures Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) gives the highest priority to developing countermeasures against bioterrorism agents that are highly infective when dispersed in …
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€24.91
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Status of Pollinators in North America
Pollinators–insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction–are an essential part of natural and agricultural …
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€64.93
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Path to Effective Recovering of DNA from Formalin-Fixed Biological Samples in Natural History Collections
Museums catalogue our knowledge of the Earth’s biodiversity, and their collections represent many decades of work by experts. Access to DNA sequence information in archival specimens would greatly …
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€24.86
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Life Sciences: Validation of Toxicogenomic Technologies
Beginning in the early 1980s, new technologies, began to permit evaluation of the expression of individual genes. Recent technological advances have expanded those evaluations to permit the …
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€24.88
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on …
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€35.68
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research
It is widely understood that stem cell treatments have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Because of this potential, in 2004 California voters approved Proposition 71 to set up a 10-year, $3 …
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€34.67
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs: Decision Framework for Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are critical to ocean and human life because they provide food, living area, storm protection, tourism income, and more. However, human-induced stressors, such as overfishing, sediment, …
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€83.47
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Report Series: Committee on Planetary Protection
Under U.S. policy and international treaty, the goals of planetary protection are to avoid both adverse changes in Earths environment caused by introducing extraterrestrial matter and harmful …
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€18.83
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Management of Legionella in Water Systems
Legionnaires disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from many …
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€90.45
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Safeguarding the Bioeconomy
Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This …
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€89.83
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Biological Collections
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation’s science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the natural world. Biological collections underpin basic …
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€69.56
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Life-Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data
Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are discoverable, accessible, and interpretable accelerates …
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€75.96
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Planning for Long-Term Use of Biomedical Data
Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific results. The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) …
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€41.74
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Next Steps for Functional Genomics
One of the holy grails in biology is the ability to predict functional characteristics from an organism’s genetic sequence. Despite decades of research since the first sequencing of an organism in …
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€75.38
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Genomic Epidemiology Data Infrastructure Needs for SARS-CoV-2
In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus related to the severe acute respiratory syndrome …
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€68.62
Board on Global Health & Board on Life Sciences: Understanding and Responding to Global Health Security Risks from Microbial Threats in the Arctic
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the Inter Academy Partnership and the European Academies Science Advisory Committee held a workshop in November …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Life Sciences: Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf
A Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf provides independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. Building from the 2019 report Evaluating the Taxonomic …
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€76.04
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Quantum Science Concepts in Enhancing Sensing and Imaging Technologies
Quantum concepts hold the potential to enable significant advances in sensing and imaging technologies that could be vital to the study of biological systems. The workshop Quantum Science Concepts in …
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€41.16
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Board on Life Sciences: Addressing Inaccurate and Misleading Information About Biological Threats Through Scientific Collaboration and Communication in Southeast Asia
Misinformation about outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics is a decades-old problem that has been exacerbated by the rise of the internet and the widespread use of social media. Some false claims may …
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€18.99
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Physics of Life
Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics and cosmology, atomic, molecular and optical physics, …
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€61.99
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Planetary Protection Considerations for Missions to Solar System Small Bodies
The ultimate goal of planetary protection for outbound missions is to prevent harmful contamination that would inhibit future measurements designed to search for evidence of the existence or …
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€24.08
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Reflections on the National Science Foundation’s Understanding the Rules of Life Program
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a five-year program on Understanding the Rules of Life (URo L) to identify generalizable rules that govern biological systems at micro and …
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Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Advancing Chemistry and Quantum Information Science
The field of quantum information science (QIS) has witnessed a dramatic rise in scientific research activities in the 21st century as excitement has grown about its potential to revolutionize …
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