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Advancing Global Consensus on Research Oversight: Proceedings of a Workshop
Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environment, ...
Refashioning Scientific Dialogue
Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globe-and with it comes...
Trends Relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention
During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the bios...
A Collaborative Effort of the National Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risks-that the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biot...
The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on t...
Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences
Biologists communicate to the research community and document their scientific accomplishments by publishing in scholarly journals. This report explor...
Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond
Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key stra...
An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science
In many countries, colleges and universities are where the majority of innovative research is done; in all cases, they are where future scientists rec...
The Challenge of Forecasting Costs
Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are discover...
Summary Report of a Six Academies Symposium Series
Synthetic biology -- unlike any research discipline that precedes it -- has the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher...
Proceedings of a Workshop
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in...
Catalyzing Transformative Research
Although its importance is not always recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists' theoretical and conceptual framew...
Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values
Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health ch...
Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the ...
Science-Based Concerns
Genetic-based animal biotechnology has produced new food and pharmaceutical products and promises many more advances to benefit humankind. These excit...
Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease
Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as-ye...
Assessing the Necessity
For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-t...
Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the natu...
Addressing Grand Challenges
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved coun...
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food dome...
During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Researc...
A Roadmap to Accelerate the Advanced Manufacturing of Chemicals
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, ra...
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 ...
Volume 3
The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants...
Mercury is widespread in our environment. Methylmercury, one organic form of mercury, can accumulate up the aquatic food chain and lead to high concen...
Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics and c...
Research-Management and Peer-Review Practices
In the three decades since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created, the agency's scientific and technical practices and credibility...
Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects
Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse...
Summary of a Workshop
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launche...
Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change
In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to the past geological recordรขโฌ"which includes fossil...
Summary of the Second Symposium, March 10-11, 2016
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for ...
A Roadmap for the Future
A new focus on glycoscience, a field that explores the structures and functions of sugars, promises great advances in areas as diverse as medicine, en...
Ignition of upholstered furniture by small open flames from matches, cigarette lighters, and candles is one of the leading causes of residential-fire ...
Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific resul...
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment i...
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 b...
Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences: Summary of a Convocation
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 thro...
The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the quality of drinking water, including its concentrat...
Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteรขโฌ"but there is increasing public concern ov...
An Assessment of U.S. and International Programs in Astrobiology
The past decade has seen a remarkable revolution in genomic research, the discoveries of extreme environments in which organisms can live and even flo...