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A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues: Summary
The summary version of Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security distills the findings and recommendations of the complete rep...
Current Issues and Controversies
The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the Li...
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...
Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance
The National Research Council report Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth (NRC, 2015) reviewed the state of the science and provide...
A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century
Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fu...
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The prolife...
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 in a ...
Assessing Eyewitness Identification
Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new...
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 Report Based on Regional Discussions Between the Science and Security Communities
Based on a series of regional meetings on university campuses with officials from the national security community and academic research institutions, ...
Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health
The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring...
Recognizing the importance of eyewitness identifications in courts of law and motivated by data showing that at least one erroneous eyewitness identif...
Scientific Inquiry, Communication, Controversy: Summary of a Workshop
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mamma...
The United States military is arguably the most intensely technological, complex enterprise in existence. When compared to the gross domestic products...
Exploring the Legal Implications of Emerging Neurotechnologies: Proceedings of a Workshop
Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computationa...
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent ...
Impact on Neuroscience Research: Workshop Summary
Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of disease...
Protecting American Democracy
During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote...
A Path Forward
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained b...
Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance
Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to identif...
A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues
Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, d...
Exploring the Legal Implications of Emerging Neurotechnologies : Proceedings of a Workshop
"Discussions around the intersection between neuroscience and the law began decades ago. Originally used mostly in death penalty cases, the role of ne...
U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Our n...
A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century: