Author: Board on Life Sciences

BioWatch is the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positione...

On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop...

Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics an...

Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health...

Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globeand with it com...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the n...

Advances in the life sciences - from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities - have profound implica...

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 t...

Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing nu...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on...

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

Quantum concepts hold the potential to enable significant advances in sensing and imaging technologies that could be vital to the study of biologic...

Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are disco...

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 re...

One of the holy grails in biology is the ability to predict functional characteristics from an organism's genetic sequence. Despite decades of rese...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United ...

Coral reefs are critical to ocean and human life because they provide food, living area, storm protection, tourism income, and more. However, human...

Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...