Author: Board on Life Sciences

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...

Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environmen...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

Concerted efforts to deepen understanding of RNA modifications and their role in living systems hold the potential to advance human health, improve...

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,...

Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi. However, nat...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Rese...

A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role ...

To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national sec...